Grenzüberschreitende Investitionen spielen eine entscheidende Rolle für Wachstum und Wohlstand. Für den Investor ergeben sich in Verbindung mit grenzüberschreitenden Investitionen jedoch Fragen bezüglich des Schutzniveaus der Investition. Instrumente, die an diesen Problemen anknüpfen sind...

This paper examines the influence of political risk guarantees of bilateral investment treaties on debt and equity flows using panel data on middle income countries for the period 1984-2011. Adopting system GMM methodology, the paper empirically finds that ratified bilateral investment treaties...

Investment arbitrations should not happen too often, because they are costly processes for both parties. Yet they regularly happen. Why? We investigate the hypothesis that investment arbitrations are used as a means of last resort, after dissuasion has failed, and that dissuasion is most likely...

This paper analyzes the impact of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on sovereign bond returns of 25 emerging markets from 1993 to 2016. Under a BIT, foreign investors can use an international arbitration scheme to enforce compensation claims against the domestic government in case of direct...