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April 18, 2017

Where Should Europe’s Investment Path Lead? Reflections On August Reinisch ‘Quo Vadis Europe?’

Abstract Relative to the past policies of its Member States, will the European Union’s new comprehensive international investment policy constitute a step forward, a step…
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April 18, 2017

Public And Private In International Investment Law: An Integrated Systems Approach

Abstract Members of the invisible college of international investment lawyers are engaged in a fierce battle over the conceptual foundations of their common legal enterprise.…
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April 18, 2017

Transparency In International Investment Law: The Good, The Bad, and The Murky

Abstract How transparent is the international investment law regime, and how transparent should it be? Most studies approach these questions from one of two competing…
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April 18, 2017

MFN-Based Jurisdiction In Investor-State Arbitration: Is There Any Hope For A Consistent Approach?

Abstract Most-favored nation (MFN) clauses are a hotly contested basis for jurisdiction in investment arbitration. This article categorizes the divergent approaches taken by 17 arbitral…
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April 18, 2017

The Awards In Wena Hotels Limited Versus Arab Republic of Egypt

Abstract Both the original arbitral tribunal and the ad hoc annulment committee in the case of Wena v. Egypt failed to respect the ICSID Convention’s…
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April 18, 2017

Network Valuation In Financial Systems

Abstract We introduce a network valuation model (hereafter NEVA) for the ex-ante valuation of claims among financial institutions connected in a network of liabilities. Similar…
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April 18, 2017

Pathways Towards Unstability In Financial Networks

Abstract There is growing consensus that processes of market integration and risk diversification may come at the price of more systemic risk. Indeed, financial institutions…
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April 18, 2017

Foundations Of Complex-System Theories: In Economics, Evolutionary Biology, And Statistical physics

Abstract In the pursuit of ever increasing efficiency and growth, our economies have evolved to remarkable degrees of complexity, with nested production processes feeding each…
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April 18, 2017

Emergence Of Giant Strongly Connected Components In Continuum Disk-Spin Percolation

Abstract We propose a continuum model of percolation in two dimensions for overlapping disks with spin. In this model the existence of bonds is determined…
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April 17, 2017

Efficient Private Statistics With Succint Sketches

Abstract Abstract—Large-scale collection of contextual information is often essential in order to gather statistics, train machine learning models, and extract knowledge from data. The ability…
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