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The impact of bilateral investment treaties on foreign direct investment

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004
AbstractThis chapter conducts an empirical assessment of the impact of BITs on FDI stocks. It estimates several variants of the knowledge-capital model of multinational enterprises (MNEs) using the largest available panel of outward FDI stocks provided by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which contains FDI of OECD ...
Peter Egger, Michael Pfaffermayr
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Indian Courts and Bilateral Investment Treaty Arbitration

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Indian courts have had limited opportunities to deal with bilateral investment treaty (BIT) arbitrations.
Prabhash Ranjan, Pushkar Anand
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Bilateral Investment Treaties in Hungary

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have been used as a powerful asset in attracting foreign capital for the benefit of the host state, while ensuring a favourable and predictable investment environment for investors venturing abroad. The more than 2700 BITs currently in force – comprising 56 BITs to which Hungary is a signatory – have had a ...
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North‐South foreign direct investment and bilateral investment treaties

The World Economy, 2017
AbstractBilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become increasingly popular as a means of encouraging foreign direct investment (FDI) from developed to developing countries. We adopt a difference‐in‐difference analysis to deal with the problem of self‐selection when estimating the effects ofBITs onFDIflows from a sample ofOECDcountries to a broader ...
Rod Falvey, Neil Foster‐McGregor
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Dutch Bilateral Investment Treaties: A Gateway to 'Treaty Shopping' for Investment Protection by Multinational Companies

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Multinational companies (MNCs) investing abroad have been using Dutch bilateral investment treaties (BITs) to sue host country governments for over 100 billion dollars for alleged damages to the profitability of their investments. This is one of the outcomes of new SOMO research into the unknown and opaque field of Dutch BITs and their legal impacts ...
Roos van Os, Roeline Knottnerus
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Definition of Bilateral Investment Treaty

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
It defines the notion of "Acuerdo para la proteccion y promocion reciproca de las inversiones" (BIT).
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India and Bilateral Investment Treaties

2019
Many countries have started contesting international investment treaties that allow foreign corporations to sue sovereign states for alleged treaty breaches at international arbitration forums. This contestation has taken the form of either countries terminating their investment treaties or walking out of the investor–state dispute settlement (ISDS ...
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Bilateral investment treaties: a developing history

Jindal Global Law Review, 2016
When an investor decides where to invest internationally, and where to set up the structure for the foreign investment, the investor’s attention is usually focused on a comparison of the tax rules, the return on investment, the local justice system and lastly the investment protection regime under international law.
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Bilateral Investment Treaties and Sustainable Development

The Journal of World Investment & Trade, 2014
States are increasingly critical of the current regime of protection of foreign investment. They often believe that investment treaties require undue limitations of their regulatory powers and undermine their effort to develop sustainably. The article first explores the relationship between foreign investment and sustainable development.
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A BIT goes a long way: Bilateral investment treaties and cross-border mergers

Journal of Financial Economics, 2021
Jonathan Brogaard, Brandon Julio
exaly