use the implementation of China’s Two Control Zone (TCZ) policy as a “quasi-natural experiment”, using detailed firm level …

foreign investors. We employ a discrete-choice model and Poisson regressions to control for the potential violation of the … concentration of FDI in a few locations could fuel regional divergence in post-reform India. -- FDI ; economic geography ; location …

The previous literature provides a highly ambiguous picture on the impact of trade and investment agreements on FDI … of modalities on the admission of FDI and dispute settlement mechanisms in both RTAs and BITs on bilateral FDI flows … between 1978 and 2004. We find that FDI reacts positively to RTAs only if they offer liberal admission rules. Dispute …

investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be … dispute settlement provisions do not necessarily result in higher FDI inflows so that the effectiveness of BITs as a credible … commitment device remains elusive. -- Dispute Settlement ; BITs ; FDI flows …

FDI projects are likely to depend on their relative bargaining position vis-à-vis the host country. India provides an … respective effects on ownership decisions since opening up its economy to FDI in the early 1990s. We perform negative binominal … regressions by making use of a unique dataset on about 24,500 technical cooperation and FDI projects by investors from 45 …

countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To … make this point we develop a model in which governments compete for FDI using corporate tax rates and tax bases. The model …

. Employing conditional logit models, we find that clustering of FDI is driven strongly by herding among investors from both, the … different from the general pattern. -- Location choice ; FDI ; country of origin ; Indian districts ; conditional logit …