Over the past forty-five years, bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have become the most important international legal mechanism for the encouragement and governance of foreign direct investment. Their proliferation over the past two decades in particular has been phenomenal. These intergovernmental treaties typically grant extensive rights to foreign investors, including protection of contrac...

abstract the expansion of financ system expanding in a country is one of the main determinant factors of foreign investment. flow and the system is affected by essential factors such as political constancy. political risks of each country is evaluated by political system figuration, its constancy, policies constancy and regular rules existence for political competition. this constancy is the mo...

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...

The present study attempts to examine the casual relationship between foreign capital inflows and economic growth in India. Using the pair-wise Granger causality test (1969), this paper specifically examines casual relationship between foreign capital inflows and economic growth in India. The important observations emerge from pair-wise Granger causality test which shows there is the long-run e...

This paper evaluates various channels through which foreign technology diffuses to the manufacturing sector of selected developing economies. These economies carry out very little (if any) own R&D so they rely on foreign technology to a much larger extent than developed economies. We investigate the direct effect of foreign R&D, as well as technology embodied in imports of intermediate and capi...

Nearly ten years have elapsed since the introduction of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (FTA). At the time the agreement was negotiated concern was expressed that the reduction of tariff barriers would remove the incentive for much US foreign direct investment (FDI) into Canada. This paper provides empirical evidence to show that US foreign direct investment into Canada has continued to grow...