How Bilateral Investment Treaty Affects Economic Equality?

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Brief Overview

This paper presents how BIT affects economic equality in a host country. The results show that BIT causes inequality by restricting state’s ability to tax, to regulate capital transfer, to opt out ISDS clause and to put performance requirement.

Authors

• Chi-ting Robert Tsai, Cornell Law School

• Chih-Mao Tang, Soochow University (Taiwan)