Constraints and Incentives in the Investment Regime: How Bargaining Power Shapes BIT Reform

• In Event: The Politics of International Trade and Investment Institutions

Brief Overview

Accounting for rational, boundedly rational, and alternative incentives of states, this paper finds that international bargaining power dynamics can explain why some states have terminated and renegotiated their BITs while others have not.

Author

• Tuuli-Anna Huikuri, University of Oxford