Over the past decade, the global adoption of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) screening mechanisms (ISMs) has surged …

We analyze the effect of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on bilateral foreign portfolio investment in equity and … countries receive 40% more bilateral equity investment when they protect foreign investors with a BIT. This effect almost … doubles when investment protection of BITs is strong, and the political risk of the host country is high. …

Brazil, after signing several traditional Bilateral Investment Treaties without ratifying them, recently shifted … towards a different type of bilateral investment agreement, i.e., Investment Cooperation and Facilitation Agreements. Two … claims have been made in the literature regarding the transition from traditional Bilateral Investment Treaties to Investment …

strategically leveraged social capital to not only decrease investment risk but also to influence their investment preferences and … behaviors. To investigate the influence of different types of social capital on the investment decisions of cross-border venture … and relational social capital tend to allocate larger investment amounts, signifying the influence of business or personal …

-developed countries (LDCs), are negotiating a plurilateral Agreement on Investment Facilitation for Development (IFD). In contract to … existing bilateral investment treaties that establish sweeping rules on investment protection and liberalisation, the IFD … Agreement aims at increasing the transparency, predictability and efficiency of investment frameworks as well as improving inter …