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No. 2016/02 | 14 Jun 2016 |
Investment Policies Related to National Security
While many countries have become ever more open and welcoming for foreign investment, the awareness of risks for national security stemming from or related to international investment has increased. Many governments have thus introduced policies that... |
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No. 2016/01 | 10 Feb 2016 |
The legal framework applicable to joint interpretive agreements of investment treaties
Governments have been examining the potential role of joint government interpretations of investment treaties at OECD-hosted intergovernmental investment roundtables. Now well-established in the model BITs and treaty practice of the NAFTA... |
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No. 2015/03 | 10 Dec 2015 |
Currency-based measures targeting banks - Balancing national regulation of risk and financial openness
This paper presents and analyses new datasets of de jure Currency-Based Measures (CBMs) directed at banks in a sample of 49 countries between 2005 and 2013. These measures are bank regulations that apply a discrimination−e.g. a less favourable... |
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No. 2015/02 | 16 Jan 2015 |
Investment Treaties over Time - Treaty Practice and Interpretation in a Changing World
Investment treaty law reflects a permanent tension between stability and flexibility. Stability nurtures predictability, while flexibility helps legal systems stay in alignment with changing circumstances and evolving needs. This paper establishes an... |
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No. 2015/01 | 14 Jan 2015 |
The Policy Landscape for International Investment by Government-controlled Investors
Government-controlled investors, including state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds, have greatly expanded their international activities in recent years. This paper describes the existing policy landscape of international investments by... |
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No. 2014/03 | 10 Oct 2014 |
Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims: Analysis of Treaty Practice
Advanced systems of domestic corporate law generally apply a “no reflective loss” principle to shareholder claims. Shareholder claims are permitted for direct injury to shareholder rights (such as voting rights). But shareholders generally cannot... |
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No. 2014/02 | 23 Jul 2014 |
Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss: Insights from Advanced Systems of Corporate Law
Corporate law in advanced domestic legal systems on the one hand, and typical treaties for the protection of foreign investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally bar... |
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No. 2014/01 | 23 Jul 2014 |
Investment Treaty Law, Sustainable Development and Responsible Business Conduct: A Fact Finding Survey
Investment treaty law – which is scattered over 3 000 international investment agreements adopted over a period of 50 years – is a crucial but complex basis for regulating international investment flows. Investment treaties are often thought to be... |
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No. 2013/04 | 18 Dec 2013 |
Temporal Validity of International Investment Agreements
International investment agreements (IIAs) almost universally define their temporal validity and thus set conditions for States’ exit from these treaties. This study presents the results of the survey of language that determines the temporal validity... |
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No. 2013/03 | 19 Nov 2013 |
Investment Treaties as Corporate Law: Shareholder Claims and Issues of Consistency
Claims by company shareholders seeking damages from governments for so-called "reflective loss" now make up a substantial part of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) caseload. (Shareholders’ reflective loss is incurred as a result of injury... |
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No. 2013/02 | 30 Jul 2013 |
Lessons from Investment Policy Reform in Korea
As more and more countries seek to liberalise their foreign investment regimes to attract global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), an essential question for policy-makers is no longer just what to reform but also how to reform. How is a... |
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No. 2013/01 | 29 May 2013 |
China Investment Policy
This working paper examines China’s investment policy since the publication of the 2008 OECD Investment Policy Review of China. China remains the largest recipient of FDI among developing countries and FDI continues to play a disproportionately large... |
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No. 2012/03 | 31 Dec 2012 |
Investor-State Dispute Settlement
Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in... |
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No. 2012/02 | 14 Dec 2012 |
Dispute Settlement Provisions in International Investment Agreements
Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) are an important component of most International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and have significant influence on how disputes between States and investors are resolved. This statistical survey of a... |
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No. 2012/01 | 12 Jun 2012 |
Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting
This paper provides an overview of current government schemes promoting corporate reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and analyses their main building blocks. It describes the drivers and challenges for governments, companies and investors in... |
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No. 2011/02 | 01 Sept 2011 |
Defining and Measuring Green FDI
This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify... |
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No. 2011/01 | 01 Jun 2011 |
Environmental Concerns in International Investment Agreements
International investment agreements define commitments on investment protection, but also shed light on how these commitments are to be integrated with other public policy objectives. Investment protection in the context of environmental regulation... |
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No. 2010/03 | 01 Aug 2010 |
OECD's FDI Restrictiveness Index
The 2010 update of the FDI Restrictiveness Index (FDI Index) expands the sectors covered and revises the way in which FDI measures are scored and weighted. The FDI Index is now available for all OECD Members, adherents to the Declaration on... |
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No. 2010/02 | 01 Aug 2010 |
Foreign State Immunity and Foreign Government Controlled Investors
Discussions at the “Freedom of Investment” Roundtables, hosted by the OECD Investment Committee, have stressed that increased investments by foreign State-controlled investors can bring significant benefits to home and host societies, but have also... |
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No. 2010/01 | 01 May 2010 |
Intellectual Property Rights in International Investment Agreements
This article provides an overview of recent developments in investment treaty practice with regard to the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs). The analysis departs from traditional IPR studies developed almost exclusively in the context... |
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Investment Policies Related to National Security
Frédéric Wehrlé and Joachim Pohl
14 Jun 2016
While many countries have become ever more open and welcoming for foreign investment, the awareness of risks for national security stemming from or related to international investment has increased. Many governments have thus introduced policies that...
The legal framework applicable to joint interpretive agreements of investment treaties
David Gaukrodger
10 Feb 2016
Governments have been examining the potential role of joint government interpretations of investment treaties at OECD-hosted intergovernmental investment roundtables. Now well-established in the model BITs and treaty practice of the NAFTA...
Currency-based measures targeting banks - Balancing national regulation of risk and financial openness
Annamaria de Crescenzio, Marta Golin and Anne-Christelle Ott
10 Dec 2015
This paper presents and analyses new datasets of de jure Currency-Based Measures (CBMs) directed at banks in a sample of 49 countries between 2005 and 2013. These measures are bank regulations that apply a discrimination−e.g. a less favourable...
Investment Treaties over Time - Treaty Practice and Interpretation in a Changing World
Kathryn Gordon and Joachim Pohl
16 Jan 2015
Investment treaty law reflects a permanent tension between stability and flexibility. Stability nurtures predictability, while flexibility helps legal systems stay in alignment with changing circumstances and evolving needs. This paper establishes an...
The Policy Landscape for International Investment by Government-controlled Investors
Yuri Shima
14 Jan 2015
Government-controlled investors, including state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds, have greatly expanded their international activities in recent years. This paper describes the existing policy landscape of international investments by...
Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims: Analysis of Treaty Practice
David Gaukrodger
10 Oct 2014
Advanced systems of domestic corporate law generally apply a “no reflective loss” principle to shareholder claims. Shareholder claims are permitted for direct injury to shareholder rights (such as voting rights). But shareholders generally cannot...
Investment Treaties and Shareholder Claims for Reflective Loss: Insights from Advanced Systems of Corporate Law
David Gaukrodger
23 Jul 2014
Corporate law in advanced domestic legal systems on the one hand, and typical treaties for the protection of foreign investment on the other hand, treat claims for damages by company shareholders differently. Advanced domestic systems generally bar...
Investment Treaty Law, Sustainable Development and Responsible Business Conduct: A Fact Finding Survey
Kathryn Gordon, Joachim Pohl and Marie Bouchard
23 Jul 2014
Investment treaty law – which is scattered over 3 000 international investment agreements adopted over a period of 50 years – is a crucial but complex basis for regulating international investment flows. Investment treaties are often thought to be...
Temporal Validity of International Investment Agreements
Joachim Pohl
18 Dec 2013
International investment agreements (IIAs) almost universally define their temporal validity and thus set conditions for States’ exit from these treaties. This study presents the results of the survey of language that determines the temporal validity...
Investment Treaties as Corporate Law: Shareholder Claims and Issues of Consistency
David Gaukrodger
19 Nov 2013
Claims by company shareholders seeking damages from governments for so-called "reflective loss" now make up a substantial part of the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) caseload. (Shareholders’ reflective loss is incurred as a result of injury...
Lessons from Investment Policy Reform in Korea
Françoise Nicolas, Stephen Thomsen and Mi-Hyun Bang
30 Jul 2013
As more and more countries seek to liberalise their foreign investment regimes to attract global flows of foreign direct investment (FDI), an essential question for policy-makers is no longer just what to reform but also how to reform. How is a...
China Investment Policy
Ken Davies
29 May 2013
This working paper examines China’s investment policy since the publication of the 2008 OECD Investment Policy Review of China. China remains the largest recipient of FDI among developing countries and FDI continues to play a disproportionately large...
Investor-State Dispute Settlement
David Gaukrodger and Kathryn Gordon
31 Dec 2012
Governments are facing an increasing number of arbitration claims by foreign investors relating to important public policies or seeking substantial damages, and many governments are taking a greater joint interest in how such cases are resolved in...
Dispute Settlement Provisions in International Investment Agreements
Joachim Pohl, Kekeletso Mashigo and Alexis Nohen
14 Dec 2012
Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms (ISDS) are an important component of most International Investment Agreements (IIAs) and have significant influence on how disputes between States and investors are resolved. This statistical survey of a...
Corporate Greenhouse Gas Emission Reporting
Céline Kauffmann, Cristina Tébar Less and Dorothee Teichmann
12 Jun 2012
This paper provides an overview of current government schemes promoting corporate reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and analyses their main building blocks. It describes the drivers and challenges for governments, companies and investors in...
Defining and Measuring Green FDI
Stephen S. Golub, Céline Kauffmann and Philip Yeres
01 Sept 2011
This paper was developed at the request of the OECD Working Party of the Investment Committee to document efforts to date to define and measure green FDI and to investigate the practicability of various possible definitions, as well as to identify...
Environmental Concerns in International Investment Agreements
Kathryn Gordon and Joachim Pohl
01 Jun 2011
International investment agreements define commitments on investment protection, but also shed light on how these commitments are to be integrated with other public policy objectives. Investment protection in the context of environmental regulation...
OECD's FDI Restrictiveness Index
Blanka Kalinova, Angel Palerm and Stephen Thomsen
01 Aug 2010
The 2010 update of the FDI Restrictiveness Index (FDI Index) expands the sectors covered and revises the way in which FDI measures are scored and weighted. The FDI Index is now available for all OECD Members, adherents to the Declaration on...
Foreign State Immunity and Foreign Government Controlled Investors
David Gaukrodger
01 Aug 2010
Discussions at the “Freedom of Investment” Roundtables, hosted by the OECD Investment Committee, have stressed that increased investments by foreign State-controlled investors can bring significant benefits to home and host societies, but have also...
Intellectual Property Rights in International Investment Agreements
Lahra Liberti
01 May 2010
This article provides an overview of recent developments in investment treaty practice with regard to the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs). The analysis departs from traditional IPR studies developed almost exclusively in the context...