Regulation of Foreign Investment:Challenges to International Harmonization

Edited by Zdenek Drabek and Petros Mavroidis

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Abstract: The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of international rules for foreign direct investment and the major challenges to international harmonization of those rules. Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and contentious issues with the view of appraising the prospects for establishing global rules. The book is divided into three parts; the first part includes papers assessing the role of national and international legislation with further distinction being made between bilateral, regional and multilateral legal frameworks. The second part addresses regulatory issues of technology transfer, labor, environment, subsidies and investment incentives, national security, public services and sovereign wealth funds. The final part looks at the experience of some international fora in addressing these issues and at some theoretical and conceptual problems of rule harmonization. The papers have been written by legal and economic scholars from leading universities.

Keywords: Harmonization; Regulation; Foreign Investment; International Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
ISBN: 9789814390835
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction , pp 1-12

Zdenek Drabek and Petros C. Mavroidis

Ch 2 Regulation of Investment in the Trade Régime: From ITO to WTO , pp 13-55

Petros C Mavroidis

Ch 3 Domestic, Regional and Multilateral Investment Liberalization , pp 57-97

Jorge A Huerta Goldman

Ch 4 Mode 3 of the GATS: A Model for Disciplining Measures Affecting Investment Flows? , pp 99-151

Bart De Meester and Dominic Coppens

Ch 5 Labor Standards and Human Rights: Implications for International Trade and Investment , pp 153-195

Drusilla Brown, Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern

Ch 6 Interactions Between Subsidies Regulation and Foreign Investment, and the Primacy of the International Trade Regime , pp 197-229

Tomer Broude

Ch 7 Environmental Protection , pp 231-275

Daniel M Firger and Michael B Gerrard

Ch 8 Technology Transfer: Regulatory Issues and International Investment Agreements , pp 277-306

Keith Maskus

Ch 9 Sovereign Wealth Funds and Political Risk: New Challenges in the Regulation of Foreign Investment , pp 307-339

Victoria Barbary and Bernardo Bortolotti

Ch 10 International Tribunals as Agents of Harmonization , pp 341-369

Moshe Hirsch

Ch 11 Foreign Acquisitions and National Security: What Are Genuine Threats? What Are Implausible Worries? , pp 371-393

Theodore Moran

Ch 12 Public Services, Investment Liberalization and Protection , pp 395-416

Federico Ortino

Ch 13 The EU Approach to Investment , pp 417-451

Americo Beviglia Zampetti and Colin Brown

Ch 14 Harmonization of Rules on Foreign Investment , pp 453-483

Zdenek Drabek

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