Safeguarding health in bilateral investment treaties: the Uruguayan experience [PDF]
Globalization and HealthBackground 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]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 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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Bilateral investment treaties and portfolio investment
Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and MoneyWe 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 A Nauerth
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Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Promote FDI Inflows? Evidence from India
Vikalpa, 2016 Executive Summary In view of the catalytic role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in promoting economic development, countries adopt various unilateral as well as bilateral arrangements to create a conducive environment for FDI.
Niti Bhasin, Rinku Manocha
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The impact of heterogeneity in bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment
Journal of Applied EconomicsPrior research remains highly debated regarding whether bilateral investment treaties (BITs) effectively attract foreign direct investment (FDI). In this context, this study introduces a new dataset, the international investment agreement (IIA) mapping ...
Zhaokuan Zhu +2 more
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The effectiveness of bilateral investment treaties in attracting foreign direct investment: The case of Serbia [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2023 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]
სამართალი და მსოფლიო, 2021 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]
پژوهشهای برنامه و توسعه, 2023 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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İzmir İktisat Dergisi, 2023 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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Interaction Between International and Domestic Law in Purpose of Determining Shareholders’ Rights in International Investment Disputes [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i ̒Umūmī, 2021 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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