Leveraging for Better Investment Grounds: IPR Protection Through PTAs and FDI Inflow

• In Event: Political Risk, Credible Commitment, and Foreign Investment

Brief Overview

Departing from the conventional view of "tying-the-hands" mechanism behind signing PTAs, this paper demonstrates that it is developed countries' interests "twisting the arms" of their trading partners in forming individual clauses of PTAs.

Author

• Jihye (Jacqueline) Park, University of Rochester