FDI promotion through bilateral investment treaties: More than a bit?

Review of World Economics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-177

  Busse, Matthias ^a   Königer, Jens ^a   Nunnenkamp, Peter ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bilateral investment treaties; FDI; Multinational corporations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949276494     PISSN: 16102878     EISSN: 16102886     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10290-009-0046-x     Document Type: Article

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