Protection Standards in Bilateral Investment Treaties and Their Contribution in Attracting Foreign Direct Investment

2020 ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Argyrios Benteniotis ◽  
Vasiliki Delitheou ◽  
Eleftherios Podimatas
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Bilateral Investment Treaties ◽  
Investment Treaties

Economic Policy Uncertainty, Bilateral Investment Treaties, and Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-557
Author(s):  
Yue Lu ◽  
Linghui Wu ◽  
Ka Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Outward Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Bilateral Investment Treaties ◽  
Economic Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Chinese Investment ◽  
Investment Treaties

This paper examines the effect of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) in promoting Chinese outward foreign direct investment (COFDI) in the presence of rising economic policy uncertainty in China's partner countries. We postulate that the signing of BITs should help stimulate COFDI because the treaties send a credible signal to foreign investors about the host country's intent to protect Chinese investment, and make it more difficult for the host country to violate its treaty obligations. BITs that contain rigorous investment protection and liberalization provisions, in particular, should be more likely to encourage COFDI as they directly influence Chinese investors' expectations about the stability, predictability, and security of the host market. However, while BITs generally promote COFDI, host country economic policy uncertainty may also limit their effectiveness. This is because uncertainty tends to undermine investor confidence, trigger capital flows from high- to low-risk countries, and dampen commercial activities. Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) estimation models of the determinants of COFDI to 188 countries between 2003 and 2017 lend substantial support to our conjectures.

scholarly journals Natural Resources, Property Rights, and the Domestic Logic of BIT Signing

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence K. Teo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Bilateral Investment Treaties ◽  
Investment Treaties

In contrast to the substantial scholarship on whether bilateral investment treaties (BITs) increase foreign direct investment (FDI), there is less work on what drives governments to sign these treaties in the first place. I develop a theory of treaty signing that emphasizes the domestic factors that motivate a government to sign BITs. Using a panel dataset of developing countries from 1960 to 2010, I find that governments scarce in natural resources are more likely to sign BITs compared to their richer counterparts. In addition, governments with middle levels of property rights are more likely to sign BITs compared to those with low or high levels. Finally, the most likely BIT signers are resource-scarce countries with middle levels of property rights. That strategic dynamics exist in BIT signing has implications for assessing the effects of these treaties in other issue areas such as trade, human rights, and the environment.

North-South foreign direct investment and bilateral investment treaties

World Economy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rod Falvey ◽  
Neil Foster-McGregor
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Bilateral Investment Treaties ◽  
Investment Treaties
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