in corrupt host countries: in particular, foreign multinationals from EU/OECD home countries tend to hold higher … ownership in EU/OECD host countries and also when the home-host relative corruption distance is small. …

regions not only receive more greenfield FDI but also attract a larger variety of investments in terms of sectors and … of labour in the view of regional profiling and contribute to the recent EU Cohesion Policy debate. …

. While it is found that BITs are successful in attracting FDI, we argue that the effectiveness of BITs depends on the type of … FDI. We find the effect of BITs to differ importantly across sectors of investment. FDI characterized by higher sunk … investment costs responds more strongly to the signing of BITs. Given that the development impact of FDI differs according to the …

via foreign direct investment (FDI), where economic upgrading processes may be focused on transnational corporations (TNCs …