Does investor protection increase foreign direct investment? A meta‐analysis

JC Brada, Z Drabek, I Iwasaki - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[图书][B] The political economy of the investment treaty regime

J Bonnitcha, LNS Poulsen, M Waibel - 2017 - books.google.com
Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of
global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is …

The empirical turn in international legal scholarship

G Shaffer, T Ginsburg - American Journal of International Law, 2012 - cambridge.org
There is a new empirical turn in international legal scholarship. Building on decades of
theoretical work in law and social science, a new generation of empirical studies is …

FDI promotion through bilateral investment treaties: more than a bit?

M Busse, J Königer, P Nunnenkamp - Review of World Economics, 2010 - Springer
Policy makers in developing countries have increasingly pinned their hopes on bilateral
investment treaties (BITs) in order to improve their chances in the worldwide competition for …

International investment agreements and foreign direct investment: A survey

P Egger, A Pirotte, C Titi - The World Economy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews the relationship between international investment agreements (IIAs) and
foreign direct investment (FDI). It is organised in two parts. The first part explores the generic …

Bargaining over BITs, arbitrating awards: The regime for protection and promotion of international investment

BA Simmons - World Politics, 2014 - cambridge.org
The regime for international investment is extraordinary in public international law and
controversial in many regions of the world. This article explores two aspects of this set of …

Ratification counts: US investment treaties and FDI flows into developing countries

YZ Haftel - Review of International Political Economy, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The proliferation of North–South bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which
provide investors with favorable treatment and legal protections, is one of the most …

Bilateral investment treaties and foreign direct investment: A political analysis

T Büthe, HV Milner - The effect of treaties on foreign direct …, 2009 - collaborate.princeton.edu
This chapter examines the effect of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on inward foreign
direct investment flows (FDI) into least developed countries (LDCs). It suggests that BITs …

[图书][B] Substantive protection under investment treaties

J Bonnitcha - 2014 - books.google.com
Substantive Protection under Investment Treaties provides the first systematic analysis of the
consequences of the substantive protections that investment treaties provide to foreign …

What Determines BITs?

JH Bergstrand, P Egger - Journal of International Economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Similar to bilateral or regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs), bilateral investment
treaties (BITs) have proliferated over the past 50years. The purpose of this study is to …