As more and more countries seek to liberalise their foreign investment regimes to attract global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), an essential question for policy-makers is no longer just what to reform but also how to reform. How is a reformist government to sell the idea of reform to...

The objective of this paper is to empirically assess the recently introduced models of subsidy competition based on the classical oligopoly theories, using both cross-sectional and panel data. Three crucial scenarios (including coordination, weak competition, and fierce competition) are tested...

Many developing countries have adopted investor-friendly policies in order to attract export-oriented foreign direct investment (FDI). The effects of these policies on the external accounts have largely been ignored. We endogenize FDI inflows in a structuralist general equilibrium framework to...

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...

Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This...

Every year, the publication of new data on FDI inflows by international organizations or national central banks is followed by media reports, equating host countries’ FDI performance with the size of inflows, creating the impression that the objective of FDI policy is to attract ever growing...

Government of India took initiatives to attract foreign direct investment in manufacturing sector through ‘Make in India' campaign. Eyeing to the necessary growth of manufacturing industry the central and states governments are changing their trade and investment policies. But the recent trend...

This paper explores the role that international commercial arbitration plays in facilitating foreign direct investment (FDI). International commercial arbitration is a system of private commercial law that enables firms to more effectively enforce contracts by allowing them to avoid...

This report identifies and discusses best practices to attract and promote inward and outward foreign direct investment. To better inform Canadian policy-making at various levels of government, this report provides an extensive and systematic review of the empirical evidence on the public...

This paper profiles the scope and diversity of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) in Canada over the last decade. The study includes an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of Chinese FDI for Canada and its implications for Sino-Canadian relations. It also discusses how Chinese FDI...