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Do Bilateral Tax Treaties Promote Foreign Direct Investment? [PDF]

We explore the impact of bilateral tax treaties on foreign direct investment using data from OECD countries over the period 1982-1992. We find that recent treaty formation does not promote new investment, contrary to the common expectation.
Bruce A. Blonigen, Ronald B. Davies
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Evolving Geopolitics and Japan's Economic Security–Trade Nexus: ‘New Capitalism’ as a Balancing Act?

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid intensifying geopolitical tensions, governments increasingly perceive economic interdependence as a strategic vulnerability. Japan, situated geopolitically between two great powers—the United States and China—attempts to navigate geopolitics by prioritising economic security.
Minako Morita‐Jaeger
wiley   +1 more source

Asymmetric FDI and Tax-Treaty Bargaining: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

Tax treaties are often viewed as a mechanism for eliminating tax competition, however this approach ignores the need for bargaining over the treaty?s terms. This paper focuses on how bargaining can affect the withholding taxes set under the treaty.
Richard Chisik, Ronald B. Davies
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De‐Dollarization Is a Plausible Outcome of the New Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A trend towards de‐dollarization of the global economy in which the US dollar ceases to be used as the world's reserve currency for international transactions confronts some of the existing structures of international economic law, built upon the rules set out by US‐led organizations like the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. This article will
David Collins
wiley   +1 more source

Human Rights and International Investment Protection: Why History Should Matter in the Making of International Investment Agreements by Developing Countries

Groningen Journal of International Law
The international investment protection regime was established to provide legal certainty and protection for foreign investors while also fostering economic cooperation with host States.
Prince Uche Amadi, Temple Damiari
doaj   +1 more source

A Proposed Legal Framework for a Comprehensive Free Trade and Investment Agreement Between Canada and the United States [PDF]

, 1984
This Article examines some of the more recent problems involving Canadian-Unites States trade, and proposes a legal framework within which to formulate a comprehensive trade and investment ...
Aronson, Saul
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Between Sustainable Development, Financialisation and Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Case of Blue Finance as Yet Another Iteration of the Washington Consensus

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As far as international economic law (IEL) is concerned, the ‘Washington Consensus’ generally refers to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s development finance policies and tools. It covers their application to their clients and borrowers with the support of Western governments. This acceptation is of particular interest
Leïla Choukroune
wiley   +1 more source

Where Should Europe’s Investment Path Lead?: Reflections on August Reinisch, “Quo Vadis Europe?” [PDF]

, 2013
Relative to the past policies of its Member States, will the European Union’s new comprehensive international investment policy constitute a step forward, a step backward, or a perpetuation of the status quo?
Maupin, Julie A.
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South Africa: The Ambiguities of a Middle Power

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT South Africa represents an interesting species of a middle power. This derives from its inherited economic muscle as Africa's powerhouse and the liberation struggle against apartheid, both of which have shaped its democratic transition. The traditions of liberation and democracy, in turn, have profoundly influenced how South Africa has ...
Garth L. le Pere
wiley   +1 more source

Japanese FDI in China - Determinants and performance [PDF]

Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) into China is analysed using an FDI model that accounts for different modes of FDI as well as third country effects and adds to existing literature by incorporating a new measurement of political distance ...
Shiro Armstrong
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