Download or read book An Economic Analysis of Bilateral Investment Treaties written by Jan Peter Sasse and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) are an important instrument for the protection of foreign direct investment (FDI). However, compared to international trade law, international investment law has so far received only little research attention from an economic point of view. By applying a law and economics approach, Jan Peter Sasse provides a systematic analysis of the way BITs function. He explains why BITs are more than just a signal, how they relate to institutional competition as well as to institutional quality and why transparency in international investment arbitration is hard to achieve and may even be detrimental.