We undertake a meta‐analysis of the effects of international investment agreements for the
protection of foreign investors on foreign direct investment using 2107 estimates drawn from …

Evidence shows that foreign direct investment can provide many benefits to host countries,
including productivity improvements, better jobs, and knowledge transfer. Further, it can …

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of
global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is …

International trade agreements lead to more foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing
countries. This article examines the causal mechanisms underpinning this trade-investment …

Most accounts of international negotiations suggest that global agreements are individually
crafted and distinct, while some emerging scholarship suggests a heavy reliance on models …

This study examines the institutional arrangements that define the characteristics of national
legal systems that are used to protect intellectual property (IP) assets embedded in outward …

Developing and transition countries have increasingly engaged in the signing of bilateral
investment treaties (BITs) in order to attract FDI, based on the widely shared view that FDI …

The multilateralisation of regionalism takes different forms when applied to deep versus
shallow regional trade agreements (RTAs). Shallow agreements focus on discriminatory …

Do political risks discourage Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in both developing and
developed economies in a similar manner? In this paper, we examine whether and in what …

Difference-in-differences designs are a powerful tool for causal inference in observational
settings where typical selection-on-observables assumptions fail to hold. When a pre …