Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are an important instrument for the protection of foreign direct investment (FDI). However, compared to international trade law, international investment law has so far received only little research attention from an economic point of view. By applying a law and economics approach, Jan Peter Sasse provides a systematic analysis of the way BITs function. He explains why BITs are more than just a signal, how they relate to institutional competition as well as to institutional quality and why transparency in international investment arbitration is hard to achieve and may even be detrimental.

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Dr. Jan Peter Sasse completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Hamburg under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Eger, Managing Director of the Institute of Law and Economics. He now works in the public sector.

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Book Title: An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties
Authors: Jan Peter Sasse
Series Title: Ökonomische Analyse des Rechts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8349-6185-3
Publisher: Gabler Verlag Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Gabler Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8349-2756-9Published: 13 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-3-8349-6185-3Published: 02 March 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 239
Topics: Business Taxation/Tax Law, Economics, general

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