Bilateral investment treaties and portfolio investment
We analyze the effect of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on bilateral foreign portfolio investment in equity and debt securities. We find that expropriation risk and the level of a BIT's investor protection are complementary. Applying a Poisson Pseudo-Maximum-Likelihood model to a panel of 60 home and 39 host countries from 2002 to 2017, we find ...
Stefan Eichler, Jannik André Nauerth
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Safeguarding health in bilateral investment treaties: the Uruguayan experience [PDF]
Background The proliferation of International Investment Agreements (IIAs), as the result of globalization, has been identified as one of the factors contributing to policy inertia or chill on meaningful public health policy action.
Gastón Ares +3 more
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The Effects of BITs on Contract Execution in Developing Countries: Some Implications for the COVID-19 Crisis [PDF]
Bilateral investment agreements are bilateral treaties between capital exporting countries and host countries, which is specially used to protect international investment, and the contract execution is directly related to the daily operation of ...
Zhihan Yu +6 more
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China’s Bilateral Investment Treaties [PDF]
This chapter focuses on the changes and trends in Chinese bilateral investment treaties and relatedly investment rules of China’s free trade agreements. It analyzes a number of questions: what is the changing context of China’s bilateral investment rulemaking? How to understand the evolution of China’s bilateral investment treaties?
Heng Wang, Lu Wang
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The effectiveness of bilateral investment treaties in attracting foreign direct investment: The case of Serbia [PDF]
Over the past several decades there has been increasing competition among countries to attract foreign direct investment, which is often hypothesised to positively affect the development of host countries.
Kastratović Radovan, Bjelić Predrag
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NOTION OF DIRECT INVESTMENT IN NON-ICSID INVESTMENT TREATY ARBITRATION [PDF]
In recent times, the importance of foreign investments becomes vital in the world’s economy. The mutual cooperation between developed and developing countries by signing the bilateral and multilateral treaties with its own dispute settlement mechanisms ...
Irina Chankseliani
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Institutional Factors Affecting Foreign Direct Investment and Bilateral Investment Treaties [PDF]
The present study attempts to investigate the institutional factors affecting bilateral or multilateral investment treaties with regard to foreign direct investment. This is an applied research based on descriptive and correlational approach. In order to
Mostafa Heidari Haratemeh
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Interaction Between International and Domestic Law in Purpose of Determining Shareholders’ Rights in International Investment Disputes [PDF]
International investment law protects shareholders’ rights through treaty-based arrangements. That is to say, a great number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) identify shares as one of the types of protected investment as ICSID arbitral tribunals ...
Elham Amidimehr, Seyed Jamal Seifi
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Protection of foreign investments under international law is treaty-based. Investment treaties are mostly bilateral, i.e. they are concluded between two states and provide the investors of each contracting party rights to a minimum standard of treatment ...
Deniz Ergene
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Missing Calvo? Latin America’s love-hate relationship with the Investment Treaty Regime
For decades, following the views of the Argentine legal scholar Carlos Calvo, Latin American countries avoided adopting international investment treaties. The Calvo doctrine established that disputes between foreign investors and the state should only be
Lucas Silva Amorim +2 more
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