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Regulation of foreign investment challenges to international harmonization /

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 f...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: World Scientific (Firm)
Other Authors: Drabek, Zdenek., Mavroidis, Petros C.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific Pub. Co., c2013.
Series:World scientific studies in international economics ; v. 21.
Subjects:
Investments, Foreign > Law and legislation.
Electronic books.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/8415#t=toc
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Zdenek Drabek and Petros C Mavroidis
  • 1. Regulation of investment in the trade rǧime: from ITO to WTO / Petros C Mavroidis
  • 2. Domestic, regional and multilateral investment liberalization / Jorge A Huerta Goldman
  • 3. Mode 3 of the GATS: a model for disciplining measures affecting investment flows? / Bart De Meester and Dominic Coppens
  • 4. Labor standards and human rights: implications for international trade and investment / Drusilla K Brown, Alan V Deardorff and Robert M Stern
  • 5. Interactions between subsidies regulation and foreign investment, and the primacy of the international trade regime / Tomer Broude
  • 6. Environmental protection / Daniel M Firger and Michael B Gerrard
  • 7. Technology transfer: regulatory Issues and international investment agreements / Keith E Maskus
  • 8. Sovereign wealth funds and political risk: new challenges in the regulation of foreign investment / Victoria Barbary and Bernardo Bortolotti
  • 9. International tribunals as agents of harmonization / Moshe Hirsch
  • 10. Foreign acquisitions and national security: what are genuine threats? What are implausible worries? / Theodore H Moran
  • 11.Public services, investment liberalization and protection / Federico Ortino
  • 12. The EU approach to investment / Americo Beviglia Zampetti and Colin Brown
  • 13. Harmonization of rules on foreign investment / Zdenek Drabek.

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