BITs Bite: An Anatomy of the Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on Multinational Firms

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1240-1266

  Egger, Peter ^a   Merlo, Valeria ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bilateral investment treaties; Count data; Multinational firms

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL AGREEMENT; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; STOCK MARKET;

GERMANY;

EID: 84870269190     PISSN: 03470520     EISSN: 14679442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2012.01729.x     Document Type: Article

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