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International Investment Arbitration : Development, Controversies, and Future Outlook

Zhang, Jianing - 2017

Globalization is a prominent feature of modern society. However, a by-product of increased transnational business activities, especially foreign investments, is an increased number of disputes. Consequently, investment arbitration has, in recent decades, experienced rapid development and much...

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Enterprises Heterogeneity, Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and the Determinants of Chinese Firms’ Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI)

Zhao, Jinjing - 2019

This paper analyzed Chinese enterprises' outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from the perspectives of Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT) and enterprise heterogeneity. Firstly, in terms of BIT, we found that the existing literature was mainly focused on BIT and developed countries'...

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The Evolution of Substantive Investment Protections in Recent Trade and Investment Treaties

Titi, Catharine - 2020

Over the years, the substantive content of international investment agreements (IIAs) has shifted to reflect political change and to respond to lessons learnt in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). With a focus on eight IIAs, selected with a view to geographical representativeness, this...

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UNCTAD's Roadmap for IIA Reform of Investment Dispute Settlement

Weber, Joerg - 2020

International investment law is undergoing a time of reflection, review and revision. Increasing dissatisfaction with the functioning of the current system that governs the protection of international investment and the wish to ensure that investment is channelled towards sustainable development...

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Domestic and Foreign Investment in Advanced Economies. The Role of Industry Integration

Sastre, Teresa - 2019

outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and domestic investment by using disaggregated data at the industry level and several … confirm that the relationship between outward FDI and domestic investment is very varied and differs across industries and …

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Impact of Infrastructure on Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria : An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Approach

Amune, Benjamin Olorunfemi - 2019

This study examines the roles infrastructure play in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) into Nigeria for the … period between 1981 and 2014. It also investigates the type of infrastructure that has more impact on FDI attraction. The … long-run relationship between infrastructure and FDI in Nigeria. The result of the estimation of the selected ARDL Error …

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How Well Does Foreign Direct Investment Measure Real Investment by Foreign-Owned Companies? – Firm-Level Analysis

Leino, Topias - 2014

We study Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as a measure of real investment (gross fixed capital formation) in foreign …-owned companies. Our data include firm-level information on FDI in-flows and real investment of foreign-owned companies located in … Finland. Our results suggest that the recorded annual inflows of FDI do not constitute an accurate measure of annual real …

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A Pair-Models Idea for FDI and Economic Growth in Romania

Andrei, Dalina - 2014

Studying correlation between foreign direct investments (FDI) and economic growth might be as generous idea as meeting … significant interrelation are FDI and economic growth, due to their similarly influential environments and complexity degrees of …

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Determinants of Chinese Direct Investments in the European Union

Dreger, Christian - 2015

This paper analyses the determinants of Chinese direct investment (DI) in the European Union (EU). Evidence is based on panel Poisson models drawing on two investment monitors for individual projects. We distinguish between the numbers of greenfield investments (GIs) and mergers and acquisitions...

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Investing Overseas Without Moving Factories Abroad : The Case of Chinese Outward Direct Investment

Huang, Yiping - 2015

Chinese outward direct investment (ODI) is unique in the sense that it starts in the early stage of economic development and does not move factories overseas. Empirical analyses using firm-level data confirm that the main purpose of Chinese ODI is to strengthen domestic production and...

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