Reports:
Attracting FDI through BITs and RTAs: Does treaty content matter?
Matthias Busse; Martin Roy; Axel Berger; Peter Nunnenkamp
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- Title:
- Attracting FDI through BITs and RTAs: Does treaty content matter?
- Author(s):
-
Busse, Matthias
Roy, Martin
Berger, Axel
Nunnenkamp, Peter - Date:
- 2012
- Type:
- Reports
- Department:
- Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment
- Permanent URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14277
- Series:
- Columbia FDI Perspectives
- Part Number:
- 75
- Publisher:
- Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment
- Publisher Location:
- New York
- Abstract:
- The authors analyze empirically whether the impact of BITs and RTAs on bilateral FDI flows depends on the inclusion of two legal innovations: investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) and pre-establishment national treatment (NT) provisions. Indeed, they find strong evidence that liberal NT provisions promote FDI. ISDS mechanisms appear to play a minor role. Surprisingly, the impact of similar investment provisions on FDI depends on whether these provisions are contained in RTAs or BITs.
- Subject(s):
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Finance
Economics
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