The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment into Developing Countries: Increasing FDI through International Trade Agreements?

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Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment: Globalized Production in the Twenty-First Century (2016, background): “Büthe & Milner (2008) document how PTAs and global FDI flows have grown in lockstep and propose that PTAs stimulate FDI by signaling a credible commitment to market-oriented policies.”
Institutions, Foreign Direct Investment, and Domestic Investment: Crowding Out or Crowding In? (2016, background): “Busse et al. (2010) and Büthe and Milner (2008) provide evidence about the effectiveness of such policies in attracting FDI.”
Ratification counts: US investment treaties and FDI flows into developing countries (2010, methodology): “It is widely used by studies on the effect of BITs on FDI (Aisbett, 2007; Büthe and Milner, 2008; Egger and Pfaffermayr, 2004; Neumayer and Spess, 2005; Tobin and Rose-Ackerman, 2006).”
The design of international trade agreements: Introducing a new dataset (2013, background): “…interests, electoral concerns, foreign direct investments, or forum-shopping as a result of lack of progress in multilateralism (see for example B¨uthe and Milner 2008; Gowa and Mansfield 1993; Hollyer and Rosendorff 2012; Maggi and Rodr´ıguez-Clare 2007; Mansfield and Milner 2012; Mansfield…”