Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) increasingly feature a variety of provisions related to economic and social rights (ESR), environmental protection (EP), civil political (CPR). In this paper we estimate the effect degree legalization PTAs in these non-trade on flow bilateral greenfield FDI. We explore relation structural gravity setting find that all three types affect FDI negatively. This ...

Theoretical analyses of international environmental agreements (IEAs) have typically employed the concept of self-enforcing agreements to predict the number of parties to such an agreement. The term self-enforcing, however, is a bit misleading. The concept refers to the stability of cooperative agreements, not to enforcing these agreements once they are in place. Most analyses of IEAs simply ig...