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Beyond FDI: The Influence of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Debt

, 2013
This paper examines theoretically and empirically the role of political risk guarantees, which bilateral investment treaties serve, in debt accumulation in low and middle income countries.
Wesseem, Mina
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Demographic Dynamics and International Trade: Stylized Facts and Theoretical Insights

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Demographic change within a country has economic repercussions for other countries through international transactions. Ongoing shifts in population size and age structure across countries have important implications for international trade, operating through changes in market size, consumption preferences, and labor supply.
Kumuthini Sivathas
wiley   +1 more source

Bilateral Investment Treaties; ; A strategy for Attracting Foreign Direct Investment in developing countries [PDF]

برنامه‌ریزی و بودجه
In recent decades, bilateral and multilateral investment treaties have become key international legal tools to encourage foreign direct investment (FDI) by providing protections that attract foreign investors.
mostafa heidari haratemeh
doaj  

Investment Discrimination and the Proliferation of Preferential Trade Agreements

, 2010
The proliferation of bilateral and regional trade agreements has arguably been the main change to the international trading system since the end of the Uruguay Round in the mid- 1990s.
Baccini, Leonardo, Duer, Andreas
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‘Let's Go to the Land Instead’: Indigenous Perspectives on Biodiversity and the Possibilities of Regenerative Capital

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The land has been a source of capital accumulation since colonization through extractive activities like mining and industrial agriculture. Indigenous peoples have profoundly different relationships with the land, which are more relational than extractive. However, their knowledge has been subjugated by and systematically excluded from Western
Diane‐Laure Arjaliès, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

When Great Powers Struggle: How Geopolitical Alignments of Small States Are Influenced by Their MNEs

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Comparing two distinct deglobalization periods, this study shows how Finnish multinational enterprises (MNEs) used corporate diplomatic activities (CDA) to influence Finland's alignment with a struggling great power. Drawing from hegemonic stability theory and new institutional economics, we argue that the power's collapsing global networks ...
Saara Matala, Christian Stutz
wiley   +1 more source

Trade Wars, International Supply Chains, and Business Associations: Historical Evidence from Norway and Portugal

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the 1921–1923 trade war between Norway and Portugal as a historical case for exploring business responses to deglobalization and trade disruption. Focusing on the international supply chains (ISCs) of port wine and salted and dried cod, it investigates how business actors contributed to the recoupling of ISCs after a ...
Rolv Petter Amdam, Teresa da Silva Lopes, Trudi Henrydotter Eikrem, Maria Eugenia Mata   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign direct investment and exchange rate regimes [PDF]

The paper uses a comprehensive data set with bilateral direct investment flows and establishes the influence of the de-facto exchange rate regime for FDI flows.
Busse, Matthias, Nelgen, Signe, Hefeker, Carsten   +2 more
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Revisiting the Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties in Foreign Direct Investment

Research in Applied Economics
This article revisits the role of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). It investigates, in particular, the institutional quality of the host countries, the number of cases brought for resolution, plus a more nuanced formulation of numbers of BITs, focusing on developing host countries.The analysis looks at more ...
Cusimano, Alessandro, Godwin, Eun Sun, McKay, Stephen, Potocnik, Metka   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The determinants of foreign direct investment in SADC countries: The role of bilateral investment treaties (1990-2013)

, 2015
The study empirically examines the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries with special focus on the impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) using annual data from 1990-2013.
Gwandiregera, Benson
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