This article reviews the impact of intellectual property (IP) protection on foreign direct investment (FDI) by … FDI/IP dataset of 31 Swiss MNEs investing into 53 developing WTO Members over a period of 21 years (1990-2010), this study … significant positive effect on FDI volumes. A differentiated analysis of specific sectors, however, does identify a significant …

The growth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries over the last decade has attracted an intense … approximate bilateral FDI flows, the literature has seen a growing debate in relation to its econometric specification, so that … outward FDI in Latin America and Asia for the period 1996-2012 by evaluating the performance of alternative Generalized Linear …

treaties (BITs), and they do this by limiting the policy opportunism in foreign direct investment (FDI) host countries. We … attempt to demonstrate that being party to common BITs and common alliances substantially raises the accumulation of FDI … panel data on dyadic FDI stock from 1978 to 2003.Results: We find that BITs increase FDI stock and that alliances magnify …

This paper investigates the effects of double tax treaties (DTTs) on foreign direct investment (FDI) after controlling … a network, since FDI can flow from home to host country through one or more conduit countries. By accounting for treaty …, only relevant and neutral tax treaties increase bilateral FDI, whereas irrelevant DTTs do not. We can quantify the increase …