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Emerging mega-integration blocs such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment … Partnership are evolving outside of the World Trade Organization’s influence. Their most contested features are their investor …
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Die Verhandlungen zwischen den USA und der EU über das Transatlantische Freihandels- und Investitionsabkommen (TTIP) sind in den letzten Monaten in das öffentliche Interesse gerückt. Umstritten ist vor allem das vorgesehene Investitionskapitel, das neben der Investitionsliberalisierung...
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When President Trump came into office the US administration launched a detailed analysis of American trade relations …. It aimed to identify "unfair trade practices" that are supposedly increasingly being used by other countries, and that … are economically damaging to America. This study simulates potential protectionist trade policies on the part of the USA …
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The growing stock of foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises poses regulatory challenges to the international investment regime. With arbitrators seemingly keen on expanding the jurisdictional scope of investment treaty arbitration to cover a wide range of...
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Over the years, the substantive content of international investment agreements (IIAs) has shifted to reflect political change and to respond to lessons learnt in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). With a focus on eight IIAs, selected with a view to geographical representativeness, this...
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reform. As the United Nations focal point for investment and sustainable development, the United Nations Conference on Trade …
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This paper studies firm offshoring behaviour following the Canada-Peru Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) enactment in 2007. This is achieved by using confidential Statistics Canada firm tax filing microdata merged with raw firm-level import microdata. While in the aggregate data,...
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This scoping paper examines the balance between investor protection and the right to regulate in investment treaties and investment treaty policy. It notes the growing trend to analyse the impact of particular treaty rules rather than treaties as a whole. It also points to the importance of...
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