Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment

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Policy Briefs

Title: The compensatory nature of moral damages in investor-state arbitration
Authors: Jarrod Wong
Date: February 2013

Title: Trying to change the rules for responding to arbitration unilaterally: The proposed new framework for investor-state dispute settlement for the EU
Authors: Ralph Alexander Lorz
Date: January 2013

Title: EU investment agreements and the search for a new balance: A paradigm shift from laissez-faireliberalism toward embedded liberalism?
Authors: Catharine Titi
Date: January 2013

Title: Inward foreign direct investment: Does it enable or constrain domestic technology entrepreneurship?
Authors: Saurav Pathak, André Laplume, Emanuel Xavier-Oliveira
Date: December 2012

Title: A China – US bilateral investment treaty: A template for a multilateral framework for investment?
Authors: Karl P. Sauvant, Huiping Chen
Date: December 2012

Title: Evaluate Sustainable FDI to Promote Sustainable Development
Authors: John M. Kline
Date: November 2012

Title: State-controlled entities as "investors" under international investment agreements
Authors: Jo En Low
Date: October 2012

Title: Is China's outward investment in oil a global security concern?
Authors: Ilan Alon, Aleh Cherp.
Date: October 2012

Title: Reconciling IMF rules and international investment agreements: An innovative derogation for capital controls
Authors: Elizabeth L. Broomfield
Date: September 2012

Title: Absent from the discussion: The other half of investment promotion
Authors: Lise Johnson
Date: September 2012

Title: A new economic nationalism? Lessons from the PotashCorp decision in Canada
Authors: Sandy Walker
Date: August 2012

Title: A good business reason to support mandatory transparency in extractive industries
Authors: Perrine Toledano, Julien Topal
Date: August 2012

Title: Starting anew in international investment law
Authors: M Sornarajah
Date: July 2012

Title: Attracting FDI through BITs and RTAs: Does treaty content matter?
Authors: Axel Berger, Matthias Busse, Peter Nunnenkamp, Martin Roy
Date: July 2012

Title: Roll out the red carpet and they will come: Investment promotion and FDI inflows
Authors: Torfinn Harding, Beata Javorcik
Date: June 2012

Title: Much ado about nothing? State-controlled entities and the change in German investment law
Authors: Thomas Jost
Date: June 2012

Title: Law at two speeds: Legal frameworks regulating foreign investment in the global South
Authors: Lorenzo Cotula
Date: June 2012

Title: The Arab Spring: How soon will foreign investors return?
Authors: Paul Antony Barbour, Persephone Economou, Nathan M. Jensen, Daniel Villar
Date: May 2012

Title: FDI, catch-up growth stages and stage-focused strategies
Authors: Terutomo Ozawa
Date: May 2012

Title: Economic patriotism: Dealing with Chinese direct investment in the United States
Authors: Sophie Meunier
Date: May 2012

Title: The standing of state-controlled entities under the ICSID Convention: Two key considerations
Authors: Mark Feldman
Date: April 2012

Title: State-controlled entities control nearly US$ 2 trillion in foreign assets
Authors: Karl P. Sauvant, Jonathan Strauss
Date: April 2012

Title: The unbalanced dragon: China's uneven provincial and regional FDI performance
Authors: Karl P. Sauvant, Chen Zhao, Xiaoying Huo
Date: March 2012

Title: Is Chinese FDI pushing Latin America into natural resources?
Authors: Miguel Pérez Ludeña
Date: March 2012

Title: The (lack of) women arbitrators in investment treaty arbitration
Authors: Gus Van Harten
Date: February 2012

Title: National companies or foreign affiliates: Whose contribution to growth is greater?
Authors: Alice H. Amsden
Date: February 2012

Title: Different investment treaties, different effects
Authors: Clint Peinhardt, Todd Allee
Date: February 2012

Title: Towards the successful implementation of the updated OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Authors: Tadahiro Asami
Date: January 2012

Title: The public law challenge: Killing or rethinking international investment law?
Authors: Stephan W. Schill
Date: January 2012

Title: Nation states and nationality of MNEs
Authors: Seev Hirsch
Date: January 2012

Title: FDI stocks are a biased measure of MNE affiliate activity: A response
Authors: Mira Wilkins
Date: January 2012

Title: Knowledge, FDI and catching-up strategies
Authors: Francisco . Sercovich
Date: December 2011

Title: Investment incentives and the global competition for capital
Authors: Kenneth P. Thomas
Date: December 2011

Title: FDI in retailing and inflation: The case of India
Authors: Nandita Dasgupta
Date: December 2011

Title: Responsible business conduct: Re-shaping global business
Authors: John Evans
Date: November 2011

Title: Greek FDI in the Balkans: How is it affected by the crisis in Greece?
Authors: Persephone Economou, Margo Thomas
Date: November 2011

Title: The new Dutch sandwich: The issue of treaty abuse
Authors: George Kahale, III
Date: October 2011

Title: Chinese FDI in the United States is taking off: How to maximize its benefits?
Authors: Thilo Hanemann, Daniel H. Rosen
Date: October 2011

Title: Shaping global business conduct: The 2011 update of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Authors: Manfred Schekulin
Date: September 2011

Title: Beyond treasuries: A foreign direct investment program for U.S. infrastructure
Authors: Geraldine McAllister, Joel H. Moser
Date: September 2011

Title: The world economic crisis as a changed circumstance
Authors: Hermann Ferré, Kabir Duggal.
Date: August 2011

Title: FDI stocks are a biased measure of foreign affiliate activity
Authors: Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Jean-François Hennart, Arjen Slangen, Roger Smeets
Date: August 2011

Title: Environmental concerns in international investment agreements: The "new era" has commenced, but harmonization remains far off
Authors: Kathryn Gordon, Joachim Pohl
Date: August 2011

Title: From the FDI Triad to multiple FDI poles?
Authors: Persephone Economou, Karl P. Sauvant
Date: July 2011

Title: Emerging challengers in knowledge-based industries? The case of Indian pharmaceutical multinationals
Authors: Gert Bruche
Date: July 2011

Title: Why and how least developed countries can receive more FDI to meet their development goals
Authors: Ken Davies
Date: June 2011

Title: The role of multinationals in sparking industrialization: From "infant industry protection" to "FDI-led industrial take-off"
Authors: Terutomo Ozawa
Date: June 2011

Title: The times they are a-changin' -- again -- in the relationships between governments and multinational enterprises: From control, to liberalization to rebalancing
Authors: Karl P. Sauvant
Date: May 2011

Title: The coming harmonization of climate change policy and international investment law
Authors: Daniel M. Firger
Date: May 2011

Title: Responsible agricultural investment: is there a significant role for the law to promote sustainability?
Authors: Nicolás Marcelo Perrone
Date: May 2011

Title: Is the party-appointed arbitrator a "pernicious institution"? A reply to Professor Hans Smit
Authors: Giorgio Sacerdoti
Date: April 2011

Title: Are resurging state-owned enterprises impeding competition overseas?
Authors: Nilgün Gökgür
Date: April 2011

Title: The backstory of China and India's growing investment and trade with Africa: Separating the wheat from the chaff
Authors: Harry G. Broadman
Date: February 2011

Title: The pernicious institution of the party-appointed arbitrator
Authors: Hans Smit
Date: December 2010

Title: State-controlled entities as claimants in international investment arbitration: an early assessment
Authors: Michael D. Nolan, Frédéric G. Sourgens
Date: December 2010

Title: How much do U.S. corporations know (and care) about bilateral investment treaties? Some hints from new survey evidence
Authors: Jason Webb Yackee
Date: November 2010

Title: What will an appreciation of China's currency do to inward and outward FDI?
Authors: Karl P. Sauvant, Ken Davies
Date: October 2010

Title: Mining for facts: PacRim Cayman LLC v. El Salvador
Authors: Alexandre de Gramont
Date: September 2010

Title: Will China relocate its labor-intensive factories to Africa, flying-geese style?
Authors: Terutomo Ozawa, Christian Bellak
Date: August 2010

Title: Political risk insurance and bilateral investment treaties: a view from below
Authors: Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen
Date: August 2010

Title: The response to the global crisis and investment protection: evidence
Authors: Kathryn Gordon, Joachim Pohl
Date: June 2010

Title: Foreign direct investment and U.S. national security: CFIUS under the Obama Administration
Authors: Mark E. Plotkin, David N. Fagan
Date: June 2010

Title: FDI incentives pay—politically
Authors: Nathan M. Jensen, Edmund J. Malesky
Date: June 2010

Title: Thinking twice about a gold rush: Pacific Rim v El Salvador
Authors: Gus Van Harten
Date: May 2010

Title: How BRIC MNEs deal with international political risk
Authors: Premila Nazareth Satyanand
Date: May 2010

Title: It's time for an EU Investment Promotion Agency
Authors: José Guimón
Date: March 2010

Title: Is a model EU BIT possible—or even desirable?
Authors: Armand de Mestral
Date: March 2010

Title: U.S. BITs and financial stability
Authors: Kevin P. Gallagher
Date: February 2010

Title: President Obama's International Tax Proposals Could Go Further
Authors: Reuven S . Avi-Yonah
Date: February 2010

Title: International investment law and media disputes: a complement to WTO law
Authors: Luke Eric Peterson
Date: January 2010

Title: The global economic crisis and FDI flows to emerging markets: for the first time ever, emerging markets are this year set to attract more than half of global FDI flows
Authors: Laza Kekic
Date: October 2009

Title: Sovereign wealth funds: much ado about some money
Authors: Charles Kovacs
Date: October 2009

Title: Can the U.S. Remain an Attractive Host for FDI in the Auto Industry? New Labor Policy and Flexible Production
Authors: Terutomo Ozawa
Date: October 2009

Title: The growth of Brazil's direct investment abroad and the challenges it faces
Authors: Luís Afonso Lima, Octavio de Barros
Date: August 2009

Title: Outward investment by Trans-Latin enterprises: reasons for optimism
Authors: Michael Mortimore, Carlos Razo
Date: August 2009

Title: Outward investment by Trans-Latin enterprises: reasons for optimism
Authors: Michael Mortimore, Carlos Razo
Date: August 2009

Title: Indian FDI falls in global economic crisis: Indian multinationals tread cautiously
Authors: Jaya Prakash Pradhan
Date: August 2009

Title: National Security with a Canadian Twist: The Investment Canada Act and the New National Security Review Test
Authors: Subrata Bhattacharjee
Date: July 2009

Title: Are SWFs Welcome Now?
Authors: Veljko Fotak, William Megginson
Date: July 2009

Title: Land grab or development opportunity? International farmland deals in Africa
Authors: Lorenzo Cotula
Date: June 2009

Title: International Investment Arbitration: Winning, Losing and Why
Authors: Susan D. Franck
Date: June 2009

Title: Improving infrastructure or lowering taxes to attract foreign direct investment?
Authors: Christian Bellak, Markus Leibrecht
Date: June 2009

Title: While global FDI falls, China's outward FDI doubles
Authors: Ken Davies
Date: May 2009

Title: A new geography of innovation – China and India rising
Authors: Gert Bruche
Date: April 2009

Title: The global financial crisis: will state emergency measures trigger international investment disputes?
Authors: ANNE VAN AAKEN, JÜRGEN KURTZ
Date: March 2009

Title: The revised national security review process for FDI in the US
Authors: Mark E. Plotkin, David N. Fagan
Date: January 2009

Title: The FDI recession has begun
Authors: Karl P. Sauvant
Date: November 2008