More stringent BITs, less ambiguous effects on FDI? Not a bit!

Economics Letters

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 270-272

  Berger, Axel ^a   Busse, Matthias ^b   Nunnenkamp, Peter ^c   Roy, Martin ^d  

^a GERMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c KIEL INSTITUTE FOR THE WORLD ECONOMY   (Germany)

^d WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

BIT; Dispute settlement; FDI flows

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959403524     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.05.026     Document Type: Article

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