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Do Investment Agreements Necessarily Cause Offshoring? The Canada-Peru Case

Houle, Stephanie - 2018

This paper studies firm offshoring behaviour following the Canada-Peru Foreign Investment Protection Agreement (FIPA) enactment in 2007. This is achieved by using confidential Statistics Canada firm tax filing microdata merged with raw firm-level import microdata. While in the aggregate data,...

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When the Claim Hits : Bilateral Investment Treaties and Bounded Rational Learning

Skovgaard Poulsen, Lauge N.; Aisbett, Emma - 2012

Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper introduces notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until...

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Legitimacy and accountability in the global governance of large-scale agricultural land investments

Johnson, Hope - In: Journal of sustainable finance & investment 6 (2016) 1, pp. 67-83

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What Is Really Wrong with Global Tax Governance and How to Properly Fix It

Diniz Magalhaes, Tarcisio - 2020

, and still is, the creation of an exclusionary architecture that deprives the majority of the world's countries from … League of Nations and the OECD. Rejecting old and new solutions for a just world tax order, what the author believes is … actually needed is a completely different approach, grounded on contested multilateral practices and diversity of world views …

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Global Economic Governance and IMF Governance Reform : A Proposal

Bradlow, Daniel - 2021

The IMF responded forcefully to the end of the par value system in 1971 by amending its Articles of Agreement and changing the scope of its interactions with its member states to better help them manage the challenges of a market based international monetary system. In addition to focusing on...

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Industrial relations at centre stage : efficiency, equity and voice in the governance of global labour standards

Haipeter, Thomas; Helfen, Markus; Kirsch, Anja; … - In: Industrielle Beziehungen : Zeitschrift für Arbeit, … 28 (2021) 2, pp. 148-171

Considering the persistent violation of labour rights, questions arise as to the effectiveness of policy instruments regarding the governance of global labour standards. We adopt an industrial relations perspective to compare three broad categories of policy instruments: state-centred...

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Multilateral Agreements on Investment - Learning from the Mai?

Polk, Andreas - 2004

In this paper, I will first give an overview of the current regulation of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the WTO and OECD. Then I will criticise the draft of the multilateral agreement on investment (MAI), that was proposed as a new framework for FDI. Though the MAI has failed, the original...

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Reconciling International Investment Law and Sustainable Development : Necessity or Luxury?

Dubava, Ilze - 2010

The paper aims at studying the potential accommodation of the concept of sustainable development within the regime of international law regulating foreign direct investment (FDI). Reconciliation of international investment law and sustainable development is part of the current awareness of...

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Beyond International Standards : Mapping the Future of Capital Markets Regulation

Jordan, Cally - 2018

As a response to multiple financial shocks, international standards have disappointed. Consensus-seeking has stifled innovation, perpetuating outdated regulatory concepts at a time of rapid market change. Different forces are at work now. Markets are complex and idiosyncratic; they may not be...

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The New Internationalism? IOSCO, International Standards and Capital Markets Regulation

Jordan, Cally - 2018

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