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 …

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

Abstract Many multinationals divert Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) through conduit
countries that have a favorable tax treaty network, to avoid host country withholding taxes …

To increase inward foreign direct investment (FDI), policy makers increasingly resort to the
ratification of double taxation treaties (DTTs). However, the effectiveness of DTTs in inducing …

We assessed what impact can be expected from global health treaties on the basis of 90
quantitative evaluations of existing treaties on trade, finance, human rights, conflict, and the …

Substantive Protection under Investment Treaties provides the first systematic analysis of the
consequences of the substantive protections that investment treaties provide to foreign …

Developing countries have concluded thousands of bilateral tax treaties, which restrict their
'taxing rights' over international investment. Qualitative case studies of these negotiation …

Double taxation treaties (DTTs) are intended to eliminate double taxation and thereby
increase foreign direct investment (FDI). DTTs are also meant to prevent tax evasion which …

This paper introduces a new dataset that codes the content of 519 tax treaties signed by low-
and lower-middle-income countries in Africa and Asia. Often called Double Taxation …

This study strives to assess the impact of double taxation treaties on FDI inflows in 15 Latin
American and Caribbean developing countries from 1983 to 2013. There are two objectives …