fork in the road clauses and waiver clauses in investment treaties are supposed to minimize the number of parallel proceedings in foreign investment disputes. while, fork in the road clauses preclude investors from further litigation or arbitration once the first dispute settlement mechanism is triggered, in waiver clauses, domestic litigation can be followed by treaty arbitration regarding the...

Central and Eastern Europe countries are in the political and economic transitional process of merging with the European Union. How has foreign investment already transformed these countries’ economic sectors and how will it affect the national economies in terms of capitalization across economic sectors in the near future? Our prime consideration is portfolio investment impact on the dynamics ...

No 25 Foreign direct investment in the financial sector-experiences in Asia, central and eastern Europe and Latin America Summary of follow-up workshops to the CGFS report, " Foreign direct investment in the financial sector of emerging economies " June 2005 Copies of publications are available from:

The large increases in foreign capital flows into the U.S. caused by foreign central banks or oil-exporting countries have stimulated research as to their effect on U.S. interest rates. My thesis seeks to shed light on this topic by examining the relationship between Japan’s foreign reserve investment, which was propelled by its world record intervention, and U.S. interest rates. Additionally, ...

the current study examines the impact of trade openness and business environment on foreign direct investment among 23 countries in southwest asia over the period 2004 to 2012. the research approach is econometric and the generalized regression of panel data was used to test the effect of the variables of interest. the results show that trade openness directly (coefficient of 0.002, p-value = 0...

Women entrepreneurs around the world have increasingly contributed to innovation, employment, and wealth creation (Brush & Cooper, 2012; Brush, de Bruin, & Welter, 2009). Studies suggest that foreign direct investment can be an important determinant of entrepreneurship in general. However, the link between foreign ventures and women entrepreneurs remains under-researched. Therefore, we suggest ...

As much as by luck as by design, China stumbled onto an export and foreign investment strategy that has proved remarkably successful, helping the economy move quickly to a market-based system. But can the Chinese experience serve as a model for other countries? After three decades of inward-oriented trade and foreign investment policies, in 1979, China switched course and launched an "open-door...

This article analyzes the location determinants of foreign direct investment in services, both theoretically and empirically. It hypothesizes four sets of factors as the location determinants of FDI in services based on the standard theory of FDI. The generalized investment theory on China’s foreign direct investment is tested empirically utilizing panel data for 17 provinces and cities from 20...

Now the investment promotion administration is carried out by the External Affairs Office of every city’s government without effective information integration. The building of City Investment Promotion Information Network System will be helpful for meeting the foreign investor’s information demands in a fast, easy and accurate way from all directions and levels. What’s more, it also helps to im...