This paper reviews the relationship between international investment agreements (IIAs) and foreign direct investment (FDI). It is organised in two parts. The first part explores the generic structure of IIAs and highlights the components that are particularly relevant to FDI. It then gives an...

In this paper, we rely on the plausibly exogeneous relaxations in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policies from 2007 to 2015 to study the impact of FDI liberalization on occupational mobility in China. To quantify the policy changes, we create a 4-digit FDI liberalization index and link it with...

This article, part of an interdisciplinary Asia-focused book project, addresses for Japan the difficult practical and policy question facing arbitration tribunals when a foreign investor claims mistreatment by a host state but the latter alleges that the investment was tainted by corruption or...

Consisting of well over three thousand treaties and seventy thousand legal provisions, international investment law (IIL) constitutes a complex and often impenetrable field for research. While each treaty stands legally on its own, the juridical and historical interlinkages between them are...

Under "The Belt and Road" initiative, the DDD method is used to study the impact of bilateral trade matching bias on China's OFDI target country selection and its mechanism. The research shows that under the " The Belt and Road " initiative, trade openness makes China's OFDI more inclined to...

In December 2015, the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda sought to achieve development for the next fifteen years and featured seventeen sustainable development goals (SDGs). Focusing on issues lying at the intersection of intellectual property...

This paper reviews the literature on foreign exchange and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the Philippines. The objectives of the research are to provide an overview of the Philippine foreign exchange rate, analyze the impacts of FDI on the Philippine economy, and determine the opportunities...

We analyse whether firms targeted by a foreign investor improve their management quality and practices after the acquisition, focusing on Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) occurring in Italy between 2010 and 2020. To proxy management quality, we resort to granular data on ISO certificates held by...

Purpose – Foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational enterprises (MNEs) has increased in recent years, and simultaneous foreign direct divestment (FDD) by subsidiaries is also very common. FDD can have a significant effect both on the performance of the MNE and the host economy. This...

We analyse the effect of corruption on FDI. Using FDI outflows from a sample of East European transition economies that had virtually no outward FDI before 1995, we observe FDI flows based mainly on current investment decisions and less on the inertia of past investments. Our model separates the...