Promoting and Managing International Investment: Towards an Integrated Policy Approach

ISBN-13: 9781032238340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

J. Anthony Vanduzer; Patrick Leblond

Opis

This book provides an overview of international investment policy and policy-making drawing upon perspectives from law, economics, international business and political science.

Spis treści

1   Introduction to International Investment Policy and Rationale for an Interdisciplinary Approach   Part 1 International Investment’s Changing Context   2 Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in the 21st Century   3 Actors, Institutions, and Policy in Host Countries   4 State-Owned Enterprises and Sovereign Wealth Funds: An Economic Assessment   Part 2 Promoting International Investment   5 The Economics of Foreign Direct Investment and International Investment Agreements   6 Attracting Foreign Direct Investment: Location Branding and Marketing   7 FDI Policy Advocacy and Investor Targeting   8 Tax Competition as an Investment Promotion Tool   Part 3 Managing Foreign Investment   9 National Security and the Political Economy of International Investment Policy   10 International Investment Agreements   11 Investor–State Dispute Settlement   12 Social and Environmental Issues in Foreign Direct Investment: A Legal and Policy Perspective   Part 4 Conclusion   13 Moving Beyond Disciplinary Silos: Toward an Integrated Approach to International Investment Policy

 

O autorze

J Anthony VanDuzer is a Professor and Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law in the Common Law Section, as well as an Adjunct Research Professor at the Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Previously, he was Vice Dean of Research at the University of Ottawa. He has also taught at the Queen’s University International Studies Centre in England, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Germany, and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. He was a Member of the Academic Advisory Council to Canada’s Deputy Minister for International Trade from 2002 to 2006. Professor VanDuzer has written widely on investment and trade in services issues and participated in technical assistance projects in these areas in transition and developing economies around the world. His most recent book on investment law is J Anthony VanDuzer, Penelope Simons, and Graham Mayeda, Integrating Sustainable Development into International Investment Agreements: A Guide for Developing Country Negotiators (Commonwealth Secretariat, 2013).

Patrick Leblond is CN – Paul M. Tellier Chair on Business and Public Policy and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. He is also Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Research Associate at CIRANO, and Affiliated Professor of International Business at HEC Montréal. Dr Leblond is an expert on economic governance and policy with a particular focus on Canada, North America, and Europe. He has published extensively on financial and monetary integration, banking regulation, international trade, and business–government relations. He is the co-editor, with Demosthenes Ioannou and Arne Niemann, of European Integration in Times of Crisis: Theoretical Perspectives (Routledge, 2016). Prior to moving to Ottawa, he taught international business at HEC Montréal and was director of the Réseau économie internationale (REI) at the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales de l’Université de Montréal (CERIUM). Before embarking on his academic career, he worked in accounting and auditing for Ernst & Young as well as in corporate finance and strategy consulting for Arthur Andersen & Co and SECOR Consulting.