Bilateral investment treaties as signaling device

• Main Author: Santos, Hazel Parcon
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2010
• Subjects: Investments, Foreign; International Economics
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/9437
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper investigates the possibility of positive spillover effects of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) signed by developing countries with developed countries. The unintended benefit to a developing country arises from the possibility that the BIT may give a signal to all countries that the d...