Government-controlled investors, including state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds, have greatly expanded their international activities in recent years. This paper describes the existing policy landscape of international investments by government-controlled investors under both...

The global crises of the early 21st century that have tested the international financial architecture. In seeking to ensure stability, governments have regulated financial and capital markets. This in turn has implicated international investment law, which investors have invoked as a shield...

Staatsfonds sind während der Finanzkrise ins Zentrum der öffentlichen Diskussion gerückt, indem sie in westliche Unternehmen investiert haben und zum Teil grosse Beteiligungen erwerben konnten. Staatsfonds sind jedoch keine neuartigen Konstrukte, sondern existieren bereits seit über 50...

The Court of the Astana International Financial Centre is a new dispute resolution initiative meant to attract investors in much the same way as it has been done in the case of the courts and arbitration mechanisms of similar financial centres in the Persian Gulf. This paper examines such...

We analyze link between mortgage-related regulatory penalties levied on banks and the level of systemic risk in the U.S. banking industry. We employ a frequency decomposition of volatility spillovers to draw conclusions about system-wide risk transmission with short-, medium-, and long-term...