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A survey of investment provisions in regional trade agreements
Chornyi, Vasyl; Nerushay, Marianna; Crawford, Jo-Ann - 2016 - Manuscript date: June 2016
liberalization and protection. To this end, we have surveyed the investment provisions contained in 260 RTAs notified to the WTO by …
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Investment provisions in preferential trade agreements : evolution and current trends
Crawford, Jo-Ann; Kotschwar, Barbara - 2018 - Manuscript date: December 2018
Our analysis covers 230 PTAs of which 111 contain substantive provisions on investment. Over the past 60 years or so, States have created an extensive network of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) that govern and protect international investment. The number of BITs concluded annually continues...
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What global fragmentation means for the WTO : Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014 - Manuscript date: December 19, 2013
global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape the WTO, and particularly its developing country members that are most affected … production sharing, supply chain agreements, and investment has not only recast the role of existing GATT/WTO rules, but that …
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Do trade and investment agreements lead to more FDI? : accounting for key provisions inside the black box
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - 2010
The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI. Most empirical studies ignore the actual content of BITs and RTAs, treating them as "black boxes", despite the diversity of investment provisions constituting the essence of these...
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Are stricter investment rules contagious? : host country competition for foreign direct investment through international agreements
Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, Martin - 2014 - Manuscript date: March 10, 2014
We argue that the trend toward international investment agreements (IIAs) with stricter investment rules is driven by competitive diffusion, namely defensive moves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI) diversion in favor of competing host countries. Accounting...
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Reevaluating the Role of Trade Agreements : Does Investment Globalization Make the WTO Obsolete?
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014
strategic manipulation of world prices. The policy prediction is unclear, however, since international cross-ownership also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752227
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WTO accession and growth : Tang and Wei Redux
Brotto, André; Jakubik, Adam; Piermartini, Roberta - 2021 - Manuscript date: 5 November 2020
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the WTO, this paper re-estimates the impact of WTO accession on growth … domestic reforms. Tang and Wei (2009) showed that there is in fact a positive effect of WTO on growth also during the period of … acceded countries. We find that WTO accession is associated with a significant positive increase in GDP growth. This effect is …
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Foreign direct investment, trade and economic development : an overview
Blanga-Gubbay, Michael; Rubínová, Stela - 2023 - Manuscript date: 12 December 2023
This paper explores the dynamic relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI), international trade, and economic development. First, emphasizing the pivotal role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) - particularly in the context of Global Value Chains (GVCs) - it underscores how FDI and...
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Trade and Investment in the Global Economy
Anderson, James E. - 2017
actual aggregate cross-section data for 89 countries in 2011 to a hypothetical world without FDI. The gains from FDI amount … to 9% of world's welfare and to 11% of world's trade, unevenly distributed among winners and losers. Net exports of FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947623
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FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect : Evidence from the European Union
Martinez-San Roman, Valeriano - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern – horizontal versus vertical – within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...
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