This article examines trends and patterns of intra-regional foreign direct investment (FDI) in South Asia, with a focus … policy reforms. The empirical evidence pieced together from scattered sources suggests that horizontal (market seeking) FDI … has continued to dominate South Asian intra-regional FDI, with a significant shift in recent years in favour of services …

claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host country. We study this question using a comprehensive dataset of FDI … compensation claims against a host on inward FDI flows from BIT-partner and non-partner countries. Focusing on these differences … control for unobserved changes in the host-country investment climate. We find that BITs stimulate bilateral FDI flows from …

This paper investigates the effects of double tax treaties (DTTs) on foreign direct investment (FDI) after controlling … a network, since FDI can flow from home to host country through one or more conduit countries. By accounting for treaty …, only relevant and neutral tax treaties increase bilateral FDI, whereas irrelevant DTTs do not. We can quantify the increase …

direct investment (FDI), an essential question for policy-makers is no longer just what to reform but also how to reform. How … FDI Regulatory Restrictiveness Index, Korea was the biggest reformer of its policies towards FDI between 1997 and 2010 … FDI regime in Korea and to examine how and why it came about. What were the main obstacles and what were the main drivers …