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Investor-State Dispute Analysis Engine

Models the recovery pathway for an investor-state claim through a seven-step analytical workflow. It connects a documented African ISDS evidence base to jurisdictional risk, award distribution, annulment, enforcement friction, settlement discounting and pathway comparison.

Institutional and Legal Design10 input groups10 output groups
Decision problem

What the model examines

How does a nominal investor-state claim translate into expected recovery and which enforcement pathways best balance success probability, time and cost?

Analytical method

How the model is structured

A Monte Carlo model follows a staged recovery chain: jurisdictional success, a historically bracketed award-to-claim ratio, annulment risk, enforcement probability and settlement discounting. Enforcement pathways are compared through success probability, timeline and cost. A fixed seed supports reproducible runs.

Interface

What this model is built to test

  • Seven-step guided workflow
  • Documented case evidence explorer
  • Assumptions shown before simulation
  • Recovery distribution and key metrics
  • Enforcement-pathway ranking
  • Recommendation driver list
  • Exportable analytical rationale
Inputs

Decision controls

  • Pre-award or post-award analytical stage
  • Respondent state
  • Sector and treaty basis
  • Investor nationality
  • Claim amount
  • Investment type
  • Simulation draw count
  • Optional fixed seed
  • Evidence filters
  • Recommendation confidence qualifier
Outputs

Analytical returns

  • Historical case framing metrics
  • Filtered case evidence
  • Explicit input and country-posture assumptions
  • Jurisdictional success estimate
  • Expected recovery and recovery rate
  • Recovery distribution
  • Expected time to recovery
  • Ranked enforcement pathways
  • Recommendation and key drivers
  • Text rationale and CSV export
Fields of inquiry
Institutional and Legal DesignRisk, Uncertainty and ForecastingIncentive Design and Strategic Interaction

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