Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an increasingly important part in the economies of the Asian region. The legal … and regional initiatives has been towards the promotion of FDI, through investment encouragement measures such as … incentives and relaxation of restrictions on investment. Moves towards unilateral reform of FDI regulation by individual states …

investment across countries. This raises the question whether certain types of government institutions might help reduce this … beneficial effects on investment by allowing governments to credibly commit not to engage in ex post opportunism with respect to …

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 …