ABSTRACT The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG)‐performance literature has grown substantially, yet a fundamental question remains underexplored: do ESG investments improve firm performance, or do high‐performing firms simply invest more in ESG? We empirically address this question using panel vector autoregression with Granger causality tests
Jiyeon Kim, Wooyoung Yang
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Future challenges and paradigmatic changes in international arbitration: A peek behind the curtain
The unprecedented growth of international arbitration and the current state of euphoria should not serve to obscure the several challenges that lie ahead.
Mohamed H. Negm
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TRANSPARENCY AND CONFIDENTIALITY REQUIREMENTS IN INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION
he values of confidentiality and transparency are often invoked in the theory and practice of investment treaty arbitration. Transparency is considered to be one of the key aspects of good governance and corporate social responsibility.
Azhaham Perumal Perumal Saravanan +1 more
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh
Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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Do Product Market Reforms Work? Assessing Regulatory Changes Impacting Competition
ABSTRACT We create a new dataset that characterizes studies of product market reforms implemented from 1932 to 2011. We examine the size and origins of differences in estimated impacts based on an OECD classification scheme for potentially competitive restrictions of regulation. The median impact from switching to a pro‐competitive environment is a 19%
Sean F. Ennis, Selvin Thanacoody
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Consent awards in international arbitration: from settlement to enforcement [PDF]
Although over a third of all arbitration proceedings result in settlement agreements very little has been written on the legal status of consent awards in international arbitration.
Kryvoi, Yaraslau, Davydenko, Dmitry
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An analysis on the criterion "Assistance to the economic development of the host state" for realizing the concept of investment contracts under the ICSID Arbitration Convention [PDF]
The ICSID Convention in the settlement of investment disputes for several reasons does not provide a definition of investment contracts, which has caused the judicial procedure in many international investment arbitration cases to try to explain the ...
Mohammad Javad Abdollahi +1 more
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ABSTRACT Focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), this study investigates how national security drives the coevolution of China's political risk management support for multinationals and competing countries' reactions. A competing country is a nation‐state that is neither the home nor host country of a multinational but perceives the ...
Shuang Li, Xueli Huang, Fuming Jiang
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Host States’ Counterclaims on Human Rights in Practical Investment Arbitration
This paper analyzes the potential hindrance to the positive results of counterclaims on human rights protection in the practical investment arbitration, then evaluates whether ASEAN Comprehensive Investment Agreement and other treaties with investment ...
Tho Thi Anh Nguyen
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V2G Scaling for Electric Trucks From a Cyber‐Physical‐Social Perspective: Challenges and Pathways
ABSTRACT Under the dual carbon strategy, electric trucks, as a key element in emission reduction within the transportation sector, can achieve a mutually beneficial situation for both the power system and the transportation system through vehicle‐to‐grid (V2G).
Jun Li +4 more
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