and the volatility of the main capital flows - foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank …

claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host country. We study this question using a comprehensive dataset of FDI … compensation claims against a host on inward FDI flows from BIT-partner and non-partner countries. Focusing on these differences … control for unobserved changes in the host-country investment climate. We find that BITs stimulate bilateral FDI flows from …

the abolition of capital controls seem to have exerted a greater influence on foreign assets than on FDI of German banks …

firm characteristics for analyzing the determinants of outward foreign direct investment (FDI). The focus is on the role of … ownership shares in new affiliates. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm characteristics ; Indian locations ; German FDI …

investments (FDI) in the US. In contrast to earlier work, this paper puts special emphasis on controlling for Marshallian … externalities may, if not accounted for appropriately, be falsely attributed to FDI. This paper also deals with the potential … endogeneity of FDI and the presence of spatial lags by employing a system generalized method of moments (GMM) estimator. We use a …

compensated partly by new job creation, particularly for high skilled workers. -- Outsourcing ; outward FDI ; motives ; location …

In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken … into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with … subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic, compared to a control group of German firms without FDI in this host country …

undertaking new greenfield FDI. -- International sourcing ; FDI ; competitiveness of firms ; market access ; cost reduction ; core …

The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI … of modalities on the admission of FDI and dispute settlement mechanisms in both RTAs and BITs on bilateral FDI flows … between 1978 and 2004. We find that FDI reacts positively to RTAs only if they offer liberal admission rules. Dispute …