International Investment Law (IIL), like international trade law, has an economic rationale as its background. Nevertheless, this economic rationale and the empirical insights into assumed causal links play a much smaller role than in trade law. Whereas in trade law economic insights have found...

Political Economy (PE) has been used in the national realm to understand political outcomes, including laws and jurisprudence applied to all substantive matters. PE identifies the interests of relevant actors as well as the characteristics of the institutions through which they pursue their...

Die Dissertation setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, unter welchen Bedingungen die Reputation von Unternehmen einen Verhaltensanreiz für diese darstellt und als Sanktionsinstrument genutzt werden kann