It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...

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...

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