provincial total factor productivity growth over 1984-2010. We observe that provinces that caught up relatively to national TFP … in Gourinchas and Jeanne (2013) to compute regional investment and saving wedges. By relating those frictions with TFP … catch-up parameters, we find an investment and a saving puzzle: regions that caught up relative to the rest of China seem to …

Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) are an important component of most International Investment … survey of a large sample of 1,660 bilateral investment treaties (BITs) identifies the main parameters of ISDS regulation in …

around the world. But while a significant number of major recent treaties contain such express provisions, most investment …Governments have been examining the potential role of joint government interpretations of investment treaties at OECD …-hosted intergovernmental investment roundtables. Now well-established in the model BITs and treaty practice of the NAFTA governments, express …

interpretation in Investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS). An OECD-hosted intergovernmental investment roundtable has been … considering a range of tools through which governments can take action to improve the interpretation of investment treaties and …. This paper responds to this interest. The first part sets forth a rough typology of possible SSDS claims under investment …

This paper reviews alleged societal benefits and costs of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) as suggested by …

of liability at issue in many if not most investment treaty arbitration claims. In debates about the impact of investment …

at several OECD-hosted investment Roundtable meetings. Part I compares ISDS with other international and domestic …; (ii) the costs of ISDS cases; (iii) remedies for foreign investors under investment treaties and their possible impact on … findings from a statistical survey of ISDS provisions in 1,660 bilateral investment treaties. Public comment on this paper …

Much has been recently written about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that has been negotiated by OECD …

concentration in international trade and investment flows. Marginalization is more likely to be explained by domestic policies in … investment flows has declined over the last two decades, whereas the opposite is true among relatively closed economies. Thus …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …