This chapter discusses whether foreign investors, specifically pharmaceutical companies, could challenge India …'s regulatory measures that impact their patents under India's BITs. More specifically, the paper will focus on whether regulatory … expropriation under India's bilateral investment treaties (BITs). The discussion in the chapter shows that pharmaceutical patents …

This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …