Foreign investment is typically considered an important source of growth for developing countries. This article … international investment agreements intended to protect foreign investors from the risk of expropriation and have increasingly …

This paper examines the influence of political risk guarantees of bilateral investment treaties on debt and equity … empirically finds that ratified bilateral investment treaties with OECD countries have a combined positive influence on non …

The International Investment régime has been transformed to a vibrant and constantly evolving, yet incoherent system. A … point of incoherence has been the notion of ‘investment' under the ICSID Convention for which the case-law and doctrine have … ‘investment' which would include portfolio investments in its ambit.Despite this trend, the aim of this article is to …

The most controversial issues regarding EU international investment agreements are, on the one hand, the actual extent … the inclusion of ISDS in the investment chapter of the Comprehensive Trade and Economic Agreement (CETA) between the EU … investment in charge of the review of inflow investments coming from non-EU countries in order to protect the EU's general …

In this paper the author empirically examines whether the influence of bilateral investment treaties' political risk …

Investment treaties focus on the protection of the foreign investor, but are not generally concerned with the … protection of investment treaties due to misconduct, focusing on the analysis of arbitral case law in relation to two topics in … State. The general rule is that the foreign investor is protected by the investment treaty. This paper is based on …