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More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!
Berger, Axel; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Roy, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...
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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, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645021
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Economic and legal aspects of international environmental agreements: The case of enforcing and stabilising an international CO 2 agreement
Heister, Johannes; Mohr, Ernst; Plesmann, Wolf; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995
The protection of the global environment is impeded by multilateral externalities which the international community attempts to bring under control by entering into international agreements. International agreements, however, can suffer from non-compliance and free-riding behaviour by sovereign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276742
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Political risk guarantees and capital flows: The role of bilateral investment treaties
Mina, Wasseem - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011262997
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Ocean iron fertilization: Why further research is needed
Güssow, Kerstin; Proelss, Alexander; Oschlies, Andreas; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Despite large uncertainties in the fertilization efficiency, natural iron fertilization studies and some of the purposeful iron enrichment studies have demonstrated that Southern Ocean iron fertilization can lead to a significant export of carbon from the sea surface to the ocean interior. From...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008549993
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The WTO and Environmental Provisions: Three Categories of Trade and Environment Linkage
Khalilian, Setareh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566201
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Ocean Iron Fertilization in the Context of the Kyoto Protocol and the Post-Kyoto Process
Bertram, Christine - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Ocean iron fertilization is currently discussed as a potential measure to mitigate climate change by enhancing oceanic CO2 uptake. Its mitigation potential is not yet well explored, and carbon offsets generated through iron fertilization activities could currently not be traded on regulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079110
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Liberalisierung des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels: Analyse des GATS und Perspektiven für die zukünftige Handelsliberalisierung
Krancke, Jan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
Die vorliegende Untersuchung stellt die Probleme des internationalen Dienstleistungshandels dar; sie analysiert und bewertet die derzeit gültigen Regelungen des GATS. Sowohl die konzeptionelle Problematik der Definition von Dienstleistungen und Dienstleistungshandel, als auch die sich aus der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700555
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Citizen-Centric Governance Indicators: Measuring and Monitoring Governance by Listening to the People and Not the Interest Groups
Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
Governance indicators are now widely used as tools for conducting development dialogue, allocating external assistance and influencing foreign direct investment. This paper argues that available governance indicators are not suitable for these purposes as they do not conceptualize governance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083412
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Regional Inequality of Higher Education in China and the Role of Unequal Economic Development
Bickenbach, Frank; LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies … inequality of higher education opportunities across provinces in China over the period of the scale expansion, taking different … with the policy orientation of reforming the higher education system and of promoting regional development in China over …
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