India has a long history of economic linkages with the EU member states. In recent period, the volumes of Indo-EU trade both in case of merchandise products and services have considerably increased and a number of investment collaboration opportunities are emerging. Since 2007 the two sides are...

The aim of this paper is to discuss new trends that have occurred in the policies of the EU and China towards foreign direct investment (FDI), to examine some implications of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) - which is currently being negotiated - for their bilateral...

Recent evidence suggests that regional economic integration provides an important stimulus not only to trade, but also to FDI. In contrast, the available theory on FDI does not yet provide empirically testable propositions on the effects of concurrent trade and investment liberalisation....

The life sciences sector (and biotechnology in particular) has emerged as a prospective area, and attracted a lot of attention recently. Multinational companies in the life sciences seek to explore new markets, and, on the other side, governments strive to develop the life sciences sector...

Die Globalisierung stellt Europa und die Weltwirtschaft vor große Herausforderungen. In den elf Aufsätzen dieser Festschrift werden Aspekte der Globalisierung aus theoretischer, empirischer und wirtschaftspolitischer Sicht analysiert. Die Themen reichen von Außenhandel, Europäische...

Die Globalisierung stellt Europa und die Weltwirtschaft vor große Herausforderungen. In den elf Aufsätzen dieser Festschrift werden Aspekte der Globalisierung aus theoretischer, empirischer und wirtschaftspolitischer Sicht analysiert. Die Themen reichen von Außenhandel, Europäische...

The proliferation of investment and intellectual property (IP) agreements recently has been accompanied by an increasing number and expanded scope of investment disputes. The agreements give rise to various issues that particularly affect developing countries. One of the issues that has recently...

This article examines the use of the terms juridical person and legal person in the China-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement from the English version perspective and the Chinese law perspective, and recommends consistency of terminology as well as replacing ambiguous terms with a simple statement....

This paper aims to determine the role of EU in Turkey's trade flows by using the gravity model. It also aims to test whether the Customs Union (of EU) that Turkey entered in 1996 made a deviation in Turkey's trade flows. Regional trade agreements on the one hand create new trade opportunities...