An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties

An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties

Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are an important instrument for the protection of foreign direct investment (FDI). However, compared to international trade law, international investment law has so far received only little research attention from an economic point of view. By applying a law and economics approach, Jan Peter Sasse provides a systematic analysis of the way BITs function. He explains why BITs are more than just a signal, how they relate to institutional competition as well as to institutional quality and why transparency in international investment arbitration is hard to achieve and may even be detrimental.

An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties

Self Organized Nanostructures of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers I

Self Organized Nanostructures of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers I

Conformations and Solution Properties of Star-Branched Polyelectrolytes, by Oleg V. Borisov, Ekaterina B. Zhulina, Frans A. M. Leermakers, Matthias Ballauff and Axel H. E. Mller; Self-Assembled Structures of Amphiphilic Ionic Block Copolymers: Theory, Self-Consistent Field Modeling and Experiment, by Oleg V. Borisov, Ekaternia B. Zhulina, Frans A. M. Leermakers and Axel H. E. Mller; Interpolyelectrolyte Complexes Based on Polyionic Species of Branched Topology, by Dmitry V. Pergushov, Oleg V. Borisov, Alexander B. Zezin and Axel H. E. Mller; Co-assembly of Charged Copolymers as a Novel Pathway Towards Reversible Janus Micelles, by Ilja K. Voets, Frans A. Leermakers, Arie de Keizer, Marat Charlaganov and Martien A. Cohen Stuart; Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Tool for Investigating the Self-Organized Polyelectrolyte Systems, by Karel Prochzka, Zuzana Limpouchov, Filip Uhlk, Peter Koovan, Pavel Matejcek, Miroslav tepnek, Mariusz Uchman, Jitka Kuldov, Radek achl, Jana Humpolckov, and M. Hof

Self Organized Nanostructures of Amphiphilic Block Copolymers I

Cold Blue Midnight

Cold Blue Midnight

In Indiana the condemned die at midnight. Killers like Peter Tapley, a twisted man who lived in his mother’s shadow and took his hatred out on trusting young women. Six years after Tapley’s execution, his ex-wife Jill is trying to live down his crimes. But somewhere in the chilly night someone won’t let her forget. Someone who still blames her for her husband’s hideous deeds. Someone who plans to make her pay in blood.

Cold Blue Midnight

The Network

The Network

A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigans days as a detective from Luke Delaney, ex-Met detective and author of COLD KILLING. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride.

The Network

The Book of PF

The Book of PF

OpenBSD’s stateful packet filter, PF, offers an amazing feature set and support across the major BSD platforms. Like most firewall software though, unlocking PF’s full potential takes a good teacher. Peter N.M. Hansteen’s PF website and conference tutorials have helped thousands of users build the networks they need using PF. The Book of PF is the product of Hansteen’s knowledge and experience, teaching good practices as well as bare facts and software options. Throughout the book, Hansteen emphasizes the importance of staying in control by having a written network specification, using macros to make rule sets more readable, and performing rigid testing when loading in new rules.

The Book of PF