Winners and losers from an international investment agreement

dc.contributor.author	Bjorvatn, Kjetil
dc.contributor.author	Eckel, Carsten
dc.date.accessioned	2006-08-03T07:19:27Z
dc.date.available	2006-08-03T07:19:27Z
dc.date.issued	2003-08
dc.identifier.issn	0804-6824
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11250/162750
dc.description.abstract	Recent attempts at reaching an international investment agreement have been met with considerable opposition and failed. An important reason for this failure is the diverging interests between the parties involved. The present paper focuses on the interests of host countries, with difference in market size as the source of conflict. We analyse the welfare effects of an international investment agreement as a function of the intensity of technological spillovers, the technology gap between the investor and host country firms, intra-regional trade costs, and the difference in market size.	en
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dc.language.iso	eng	en
dc.publisher	Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration. Department of Economics	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Discussion paper	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	2003:15	en
dc.subject	international investment agreement	en
dc.subject	foreign direct investment	en
dc.subject	technological spillovers	en
dc.subject	investment policy	en
dc.subject	welfare effects	en
dc.title	Winners and losers from an international investment agreement	en
dc.type	Working paper	en