This paper examines the relationship between agglomeration economies and relative wage costs in influencing location of multinational corporations. An inflow of firms to certain regions and industries is likely to increase demand for labor. If mobility of labor is low increased costs can be...

In 2009, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows to developed countries experienced the largest decline among all regions and sub-regions. However, South, East and Southeast Asia showed the smallest decline among developing economies and remained the largest recipient of FDI inflows. Meanwhile,...

The China–Australia Free Trade Agreement (‘ChAFTA') reflects the latest development of trade and investment rules in regional economic integration and is of significance to the future development of the international economic legal order. Through a critical analysis of the major ChAFTA rules...

We explore the possible existence and behavior of hot money in six categories of disaggregated bilateral capital flows (equity inflows, equity outflows, bond inflows, bond outflows, banking credit inflows, and banking credit outflows) for 12 emerging markets vis-à-vis the U.S. from 1995 to 2012...

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 paper inquires whether the ITA tribunals, while judging whether a host State's regulatory measures amount to indirect expropriation or not, have been able to develop and apply the police power doctrine in a uniform manner? This inquiry is important to understand whether this doctrine could...

This chapter will study the evolution of India's approach to bilateral investment treaties (BITs) since her independence in 1947. The chapter will trace this evolution by dividing the time period from 1947 to date in three phases. In the first phase, from 1947 till end of 1990, India didn't...

The objective of this article is to explore the economic relationship between China and the surrounding dynamic Asian economies. It delves into China's influence over the Asian economies and whether this relationship is a market-led or de facto symbiosis. The three principal channels of regional...

This paper examines, applying quantile regression, the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic freedom on economic growth in BRICS economies. We find that GDP per capita income responds positively to FDI via economic freedom

The aim of this study is to examine whether and how foreign ownership affects export orientation of large Turkish companies in alliance with the increasing internationalization trends. Empirical analysis is based on the annual data of industrial companies listed in the Istanbul Chamber of...