held back by a sharp fall in investment rates, which has left firms with little need for bond borrowing. Even so, markets … have developed in other ways, to such an extent that substantial amounts of foreign portfolio investment have begun to flow … investment likely to rise, ASEAN5 bond markets could expand rapidly over the next decade, holding out the prospect that the …

discussion and has been discussed by governments participating in an OECD-hosted investment roundtable. …

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 …

investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally …, shareholder claims for reflective loss have been widely permitted under typical investment treaties over the last 10 years …. Ongoing OECD-hosted inter-governmental dialogue on investment law is considering whether there are policy reasons justifying …

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 …

permitted under typical bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in recent years. This paper analyses investment treaty provisions …

documents international investment treaty practice in relation to government-controlled investors by examining, in particular …, whether they are explicitly dealt with in investment treaties and, if so, how they are handled in the treaties. Finally, the …

International investment agreements (IIAs) almost universally define their temporal validity and thus set conditions … temporal validity of 2,061 bilateral investment agreements that the 55 economies participating in the OECD-hosted Freedom of … Investment Roundtables have concluded with any other economy.<P> The paper summarises in its first part past and current treaty …

International investment agreements define commitments on investment protection, but also shed light on how these … commitments are to be integrated with other public policy objectives. Investment protection in the context of environmental … debate in this policy area, the present survey establishes a statistical portrait of governments’ investment treaty writing …