We undertake a meta‐analysis of the effects of international investment agreements for the
protection of foreign investors on foreign direct investment using 2107 estimates drawn from …

This article reviews scholarly research on the political economy of foreign direct investment
(FDI) over the past 20 years. FDI research during this period reflects FDI's rapid growth …

Investment treaties are some of the most controversial but least understood instruments of
global economic governance. Public interest in international investment arbitration is …

The regime for international investment is extraordinary in public international law and
controversial in many regions of the world. This article explores two aspects of this set of …

This paper argues that the foreign direct investment (FDI) data commonly used to test
political science theories about FDI often diverge from the theorized about phenomena in …

What determines whether countries' institutions attract or deter investment? Although
existing theories predict that multinational enterprises (MNEs) avoid locations where …

International investment law provides a means for states to mitigate political risks that foreign
investors face inside their borders. Its status quo includes thousands of international …

The ʽresource curseʼ is the view that countries with extensive natural resources tend to
suffer from a host of undesirable outcomes, including the weakening of state capacity …

Advocates for economic development often call for greater transparency. But what does
transparency really mean? What are its consequences? This breakthrough book …

Difference-in-differences designs are a powerful tool for causal inference in observational
settings where typical selection-on-observables assumptions fail to hold. When a pre …