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Mode of international investment and endogenous risk of expropriation
Dadašov, Ramin; Lorz, Oliver - 2011
political power to expropriate productive assets. In a joint venture, the domestic asset owner bears the risk of expropriation … institutional framework in the host country, the elite influences the risk of expropriation. We determine the equilibrium risk of … expropriation in this framework and the resulting pattern of international production. We also analyze as to how globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346434
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Mode of international investment and endogenous risk of expropriation
Dadasov, Ramin; Lorz, Oliver - 2010
political power to expropriate productive assets. In a joint venture, the domestic asset owner bears the risk of expropriation … institutional framework in the host country, the elite in uences the risk of expropriation. We determine the equilibrium risk of … expropriation in this framework and the resulting pattern of international production. We also analyze as to how globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286399
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Mode of international investment and endogenous risk of expropriation
Dadasov, Ramin; Lorz, Oliver - 2010
political power to expropriate productive assets. In a joint venture, the domestic asset owner bears the risk of expropriation … institutional framework in the host country, the elite influences the risk of expropriation. We determine the equilibrium risk of … expropriation in this framework and the resulting pattern of international production. We also analyze as to how globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758888
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Dispute settlement provisions in international investment agreements : a large summary survey
Pohl, Joachim; Mashigo, Kekeletso; Nohen, Alexis - 2012
Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) are an important component of most International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and have significant influence on how disputes between States and investors are resolved. This statistical survey of a large sample of 1,660 bilateral investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009685837
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Societal benefits and costs of international investment agreements : a critical review of aspects and available empirical evidence
Pohl, Joachim - 2018
This paper reviews alleged societal benefits and costs of International Investment Agreements (IIAs) as suggested by academia, governments, business and civil society. It sets out the wide range of issues that diverse actors have proposed in the context of assessing the societal benefits and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011821959
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement : A Scoping Paper for the Investment Policy Community
Gaukrodger, David; Gordon, Kathryn - 2013
Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS). This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161516
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Organization of multinational activities and ownership structure
Mugele, Christian; Schnitzer, Monika - 2006
We develop a model in which multinational investors decide about the modes of organization, the locations of production, and the markets to be served. Foreign investments are driven by market-seeking and cost-reducing motives. We further assume that investors face costs of control that vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366525
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Natural resource production, corruption and expropriation
Dadašov, Ramin; Hefeker, Carsten; Lorz, Oliver - 2014
resource production makes expropriation more attractive from the perspective of national governments. A low expropriation risk … estimations of a simultaneous equation model for 50 resource-rich countries in which we endogenize expropriation risk, corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370904
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Technology transfer and spillovers in international joint ventures
Müller, Thomas; Schnitzer, Monika - 2003
This paper analyzes the effects of a potential spillover on technology transfer of a multinational enterprise and on the host country policy. In particular, we examine how both parties' incentives can be controlled through the ownership structure in an international joint venture. In contrast to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001904626
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Technology transfer and spillovers in international joint ventures
Müller, Thomas; Schnitzer, Monika - 2005
It is often argued that multinationals are reluctant to transfer technology due to the fear of spillovers. We show that this need not be the case if host country policies like taxation are taken into account. Furthermore, we examine the incentives the multinational and the host country have to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366560