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Investor-State Dispute Settlement Under TTIP – A Risk for Environmental Regulation?

Gerstetter, Christiane - 2014

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WTO Law and Risk Factors for Non-Communicable Diseases : A Complex Relationship

Voon, Tania - 2013

This paper highlights the growing public health problem posed by non‐communicable diseases ('NCDs') – principally cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes – and the crucial role of the WTO in supporting international efforts to combat that problem. Some...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182525

Science in the Process of Risk Regulation under the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures

Gruszczynski, Lukasz - 2008

This article attempts to present a comprehensive and coherent picture of the position occupied by science under the SPS Agreement and in the SPS case law. It claims that the approach adopted by the Appellate Body reflects the explicit language of the SPS Agreement and is predominantly based on a...

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Public Perception of Risks Under WTO Law : A Normative Perspective

Alemanno, Alberto - 2013

The exact role that public perception of risks, and more in general public opinion and consumer concerns, may, and ought to, play in risk decision-making is one of the most challenging, yet little explored, issues under WTO law. How does the WTO take into account public perceptions and ensuing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171937

Risk Taking and Force Protection

Luban, David - 2011

This paper addresses two questions about the morality of warfare: (1) how much risk must soldiers take to minimize unintended civilian casualties caused by their own actions (“collateral damage”), and (2) whether it is the same for the enemy's civilians as for one's own. The questions take...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014043336

The Use and Evolution of Governance Designs in Transnational Transactions – An Evolutionary Angle on Coping with Uncertainty

Freiling, Jörg; Nieswandt, Holger - 2010

International business research points to the uncertainty in transnational commerce that is often aggravated by the dynamism and complexity inherent in global transactions. This paper addresses the evolution of private governance designs in the typical situation of absent public law of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198183

Political Risk and International Valuation

Bekaert, Geert - 2015

Measuring the impact of political risk on investment projects is one of the most vexing issues in international business. One popular approach is to assume that the sovereign yield spread captures political risk and to augment the project discount rate by this spread. We show that this approach...

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Risk and Randomness in International Legal Argumentation

Urueña, René - 2013

The idea of randomness is mostly excluded from international legal argumentation. If we need law at all, we are told, it is precisely to avoid arbitrary fortuity. Nonetheless, the exclusion of randomness renders international law structurally incapable of dealing with general risk issues, be...

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Modelling Arbitration : Evaluating Risks and Settlements of Disputes Using Regret Theory

Galadari, Abdulla - 2013

or not to raise an arbitration case for a claim. It adds the ingredient of a regret theory approach for taking that … decision, if an amicable settlement amount is not agreed. Many other models that are based on decision trees, game theory, and … neural networks lack a regret theory approach. The inclusion of regret theory in this model may be adaptable to any other …

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Arbitration between insurance and self-insurance against natural risks

Zerbo, Guibri - 2024

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