Government-controlled investors, including state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds, have greatly expanded their international activities in recent years. This paper describes the existing policy landscape of international investments by government-controlled investors under both...

Introduction to International Investment Policy and Rationale for an Interdisciplinary Approach / J Anthony VanDuzer, Patrick Leblond, and Stephen Gelb -- Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in the 21st Century / Ari Van Assche -- Actors, Institutions, and Policy in Host Countries / Krista...

Introduction to International Investment Policy and Rationale for an Interdisciplinary Approach / J Anthony VanDuzer, Patrick Leblond, and Stephen Gelb -- Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in the 21st Century / Ari Van Assche -- Actors, Institutions, and Policy in Host Countries / Krista...

This paper investigates the effect of arbitral proceedings on bilateral portfolio equity investments in emerging markets. Investment disputes may deter foreign investors as they reveal a government’s poor behavior towards foreign investors. The analysis investigates the effects of the first...

We analyze the effect of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) on bilateral foreign portfolio investment in equity and debt securities. We find that expropriation risk and the level of a BIT’s investor protection are complementary. Applying a Poisson Pseudo-Maximum-Likelihood model to a panel...

International investment agreements (IIAs) almost universally define their temporal validity and thus set conditions for States’ exit from these treaties. This study presents the results of the survey of language that determines the temporal validity of 2,061 bilateral investment agreements...