The link between aid and private investment is not well understood. Could aid-financed infrastructure investments encourage higher foreign...

Financial market development of both source and host countries can shape and drive flows of financial direct investment over time.

The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly little attention in the...

Official development assistance (ODA) and foreign direct investment (FDI) are widely perceived to be alternative means of supplementing...

It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the termination of conflicts. However, the...

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model...

Compelling empirical evidence on whether investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) is systematically biased against poor respondent states...

When an investor sues a state for alleged breaches of its obligations under an investment treaty or a trade agreement with investment...

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid...

Inspired by a recent and ongoing debate about whether foreign direct investment (FDI) represents a blessing for or an impediment to economic,...

Geocoding firm-level data and matching them to georeferenced household survey data, we are the first to analyze whether the presence of...

The effects of foreign aid on the endowment of recipient countries with infrastructure have received surprisingly little attention in the...

When an investor sues a state for alleged breaches of its obligations under an investment treaty or a trade agreement with investment...

We address the question of whether foreign aid helps attract foreign direct investment (FDI). This could be achieved if well targeted aid...

It is widely believed that foreign aid may help conflict-affected countries to recover after the settlement of conflicts. However, the...

Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral trade for a panel of 37...

We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model...

We estimate gravity-type models to assess the effects of financial market development in the host and source countries on bilateral FDI...

We raise the hypothesis that aid specifically targeted at economic infrastructure helps developing countries attract higher FDI inflows...