This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation factors on trade flows, with a particular focus on Global Value Chains (GVCs) in the agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Using the structural gravity model of international and intra-national…
Economic, financial, and social ties are strong between the European Union and its neighborhood. More resilient societies in the EU’s neighborhood would mean that they are liable to suffer less damage from regional conflicts and global crises – and…
This paper analyzes the link between joining global value chains (GVCs) and firms’ environmental performance. Based on new survey data for firms in countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and MENA, we use propensity score matching (PSM) to…
International arbitration institutions have been requested to administer an increasing number of investment disputes. In investment arbitration, a responding state usually stipulates its standing offers to arbitrate in the bilateral investment…
Regulatory measures on cross-border data flows are essential to personal data protection laws. The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) of the European Union (“EU”) is one of such influential personal data protection regimes, which has become…
Tourism and foreign real estate investment (FREI), both represent important sources of foreign income for some emerging nations. Mauritius, a small island economydepends largely upon tourism and it has been promoting FREI over the past two decades…
This article was published in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.
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Using country-level panel data, this study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the gross domestic product per capita in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa region over the 2000- 2015 period. The estimates are…