The chapter challenges claims about depoliticization in two different aspects. The first examined claim is that home states are disenfranchised from pursuing investment claims once they are lodged with ICSID. Is it the case that home states simply stay home? This chapter examines instances where...

The five contributions in this legal working paper discuss various aspects of investment arbitration. They were originally presented at the ECB legal colloquium on ‘The new challenges raised by investment arbitration for the EU legal order’ which took place in Frankfurt am Main in 2019.

Die Studie "Landrechte und landwirtschaftliche Großinvestitionen in Äthiopien" behandelt die Spannung zwischen Landrechten und langfristig angelegten landwirtschaftlichen Investitionen. Sie prüft das Recht auf Land, das aus dem Recht auf natürliche Ressourcen, auf angemessene Nahrung und die...

In 2011, the American Economic Association (AEA) changed its peer review policy for all their journals, shifting from a double-blind process to a single-blind peer-review process. Under this new system, referees became aware of the authors' identities. In this paper, I explore whether this...

We examine how tariffs affect sectoral composition and welfare in an economy with nonhomothetic preferences and sectors being complements---key drivers of structural change. Beyond their conventional role in trade protection, tariffs influence industrial structure by altering relative prices and...

Exploiting the U.S.-China trade war in 2018 as an exogenous shock, we investigate how interstate frictions affect corporate research and development (R&D) investment based on the Difference-in-Differences (DID) method. We find that firms with higher exposures to the trade war significantly...

Globalization is compromised following international trade wars, including tariffs and supply-chain disruptions. Do firms that import from China invest more or less? Surprisingly, I find no difference in the shipments, orders, expected return or investment of firms that work with domestic...