We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The … host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to … higher investment levels and increases host country revenues, but hurts pro.ts of international investors. …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships … complex vertical motivations. -- foreign direct investment ; services ; spatial econometric techniques …

why their sales and their investment probability decrease across space. Empirical evidence from data on corporate …

investment reduces the market distortion, it will also make potential compensations larger. Consequently, potential compensations … to a foreign investor do not imply a zero-sum game. ISDS may decrease domestic welfare, in particular if the investment …

two-period model where foreign investment is subject to domestic regulation and a holdup problem. It shows that ISDS can …

We study the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum on UK foreign direct investment. Using the synthetic control method … number of UK outward investment transactions in the remaining EU27 member states, whereas transactions in non-EU OECD … retain access to the EU market after Brexit. At the same time, we find that the number of EU27 investment projects in the UK …

investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational … transfer pricing by the host country affect investment and employment of foreign subsidiaries. The results indicate that …