Network (or matrix) reconstruction is a general problem that occurs if the marginsof a matrix are given and the matrix entries need to be predicted. In this paper,we show that the predictions obtained from the iterative proportional fitting procedure(IPFP) or equivalently maximum entropy (ME)...

In international politics, intergovernmental treaties provide the rules of the game. Similar to private law, treaty designers face a trade-off between flexibility to adjust to unforeseen contingencies and the danger that the binding nature of the treaty and hence, the level of commitment by...