Reevaluating the role of trade agreements: Does investment globalization make the WTO obsolete?

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-72

  Blanchard, Emily J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

FDI; International investment; Multilateralism; Trade agreements; WTO

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; GLOBALIZATION; MULTILATERAL TRADE; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; RECIPROCITY; TRADE AGREEMENT; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 77955096862     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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