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...

While there is an extensive amount of literature on the noodle bowl of agreements in Asia, the majority of studies exclusively focus on trade (in goods). So far, little emphasis has been placed on the proliferation of international investment treaties (IIAs). Given the significance of IIAs, it...

Germany is a large source country for investment and technology transfer into India and Indian investments in Germany are also growing overtime. The two countries have investment complementarities and, therefore, there is scope to enhance bilateral investments flows. However, there are many...

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the entry of new foreign firms into a host economy is influenced by location-related factors associated with the economy's business environment, specially its agglomeration economies and labor market composition. To analyze this dynamic as it...

In recent years there has been an increase in the number of investor-State arbitrations involving war-torn States. Among other issues, the investors in these claims seek redress for the State's alleged failure to protect against the destruction of property by third parties as required under the...

The debate of the link between xenophobia and importance of foreign direct investment is of interest. A phrase says it all, “One cannot want foreign money and hate foreign businesses at the same time.” Does South Africa, as a country, love foreign investment, and by extension, foreign...

This research reveals the inherent dynamics between the amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow in the host country and its political relationships with other countries. We demonstrate in a two-stage sequential game model that there exists an inverted U-shape relationship between FDI...

We study foreign firm exit from Russia following the 2022 offensive in Ukraine. Using administrative data on the universe of equity ownership in Russia we find that Western-owned firms that exited Russia in 2022 accounted for 1.5%, 3.0%, and 3.6% of capital stock, revenues, and wage bill in...

Negotiations between India and the EU for a Broad-Based Bilateral Trade and Investment Agreement (BTIA) have proven to be a complex and protracted affair. Despite both parties realising the importance of a trade agreement, neither of them intend to provide any concessions to the other party....