The Politics and Economics of Bilateral Investment Treaties

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

How do institutions influence the location of foreign direct investment (FDI)? Do bilateral investment treaty violations affect parent firms’ decisions to divest their foreign affiliates? When it comes to making investment decisions, how do these institutions work? Yet, we can also think about BITS effects on politics. When does a state violate its obligations in bilateral investment treaties (BITs)? Is there a relationship between capital openness, BITs, and the risk of coups in developing countries? This session examines BITs from a variety of different angles.

Sub Unit

• Division 16: International Political Economy

Individual Presentations

• Bundling Institutions: How Institutions Influence the Location of FDI - Weiwen Yin, Texas A&M University

• Capital Openness, Bilateral Investment Treaties, and Coups d’état - Wen-Chin Wu, Academia Sinica; FANGJIN YE, MICHIGAN STATE

Chair

• Jennifer L Tobin Georgetown University