Costs and consequences of the expropriation of FDI by host governments

There are no laws preventing a host government from seizing the capital of a foreign direct investment in its borders and then denying any compensation for the foreign investor. Why do we not see many more expropriations of investor capital by host governments? Compiling a database of expropriations within the minerals sectors of developing countries, I show that there is a cost for expropriation by a host government in the form of lower growth in the sectors of countries that expropriated in the past. It is possible to lose a bad reputation by a host government's actions after expropriation.