This paper examines the developments of cross-border portfolio assets and liabilities in the Asia and Pacific region …. Limited capital inflows to debt securities issued by emerging Asia may be attributable to the early stages of bond market … reflects Japan's preference toward debt securities. Other Asia and Pacific economies have invested more heavily in foreign …

-- Judicial Diplomacy? : The Role of the CJEU in EU-Asia Trade Disputes / Andrés Delgado Casteleiro -- Law and Diplomacy in EU …-China Trade Relations : A Historical Overview / Jappe Eckhart -- EU-Asia Investors-States Disputes : Assertive Legalism for …-Wen Hsueh -- Preventing Divergences from Becoming Disputes : The Elusive EU-China Investment Negotiations / -- Julien Chaisse …

Unanticipated consequences -- Bounded rationality and the spread of investment treaties -- A difficult beginning … -- Promoting investment treaties -- A less then rational competition -- Narcissistic learning -- Letting down the guard : a case … study -- Expanding the bounds of rationality in the investment regime …

The European Union is very open to foreign direct investment. By comparison, despite considerable liberalisation in the … Investment (CAI). The text awaiting ratification aims to give foreign investors greater market access, enforceable via state … protection is covered by bilateral investment treaties between EU countries and China, which remain in force. The CAI has been …

direct investment (FDI) from these economies is rising faster than their economic growth, trade, and inward FDI, and the … outward FDI are generally consistent with the international investment literature. But in addition particular factors are at … towards East Asia …