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The Politics of Investment : Partisanship and the Sectoral Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment

Pinto, Pablo M.; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2008

This paper explores the existence of partisan cycles in foreign direct investment performance. Our theoretical model predicts that the incumbent government's partisanship should affect foreign investors' decision to flow into different sectors of the host country: pro-labor governments would...

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Political Dimensions of Investment Arbitration : ISDS and the TTIP Negotiations

Dietz, Thomas - 2015

The aim of this paper is to explore the political dimensions of investment arbitration. What drives the structures and rules of this institution of private-transnational dispute settlement? To define political dimensions and develop the basis of a political explanation of investment arbitration,...

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Multinational firms and new protectionisms

Buch, Claudia M. (contributor); Kleinert, Jörn (contributor) - 2007

Recent initiatives to hold back cross-border mergers and acquisitions for ‘strategic’ reasons have made headline news. We discuss whether the initiatives may mark the start of a new protectionist era. We argue that standard globalization indicators show no such signs. However, an increasing...

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Need, merit, and politics in multilateral aid allocation : a district-level analysis of World Bank projects in India

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2012

empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …