Replication Data for: Are Stricter Investment Rules Contagious? Host Country Competition for Foreign Direct Investment through International Agreements (with Peter Nunnenkamp and Martin Roy), Review of World Economics 152, 2016, pp. 177-213
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'We argue that competitive diffusion is a driver of the trend towardinternational investment agreements with stricter investment rules, namely defensivemoves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI)diversion in favor of competing host countries. Accounting for spatial dependencein the formation of bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreementsthat contain investment provisions, we find that the increase in agreements withstricter provisions on investor-to-state dispute settlement and pre-establishmentnational treatment is a contagious process. Specifically, a developing country ismore likely to sign an agreement with weak investment provisions if other developingcountries that compete for FDI from the same developed country have previouslysigned agreements with similarly' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Bilateral investment treaties","Competition for FDI","Investment provisions","Preferential trade agreements","Spatial dependence"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'We argue that competitive diffusion is a driver of the trend towardinternational investment agreements with stricter investment rules, namely defensivemoves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI)diversion in favor of competing host countries. Accounting for spatial dependencein the formation of bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreementsthat contain investment provisions, we find that the increase in agreements withstricter provisions on investor-to-state dispute settlement and pre-establishmentnational treatment is a contagious process. Specifically, a developing country ismore likely to sign an agreement with weak investment provisions if other developingcountries that compete for FDI from the same developed country have previouslysigned agreements with similarly' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
We argue that competitive diffusion is a driver of the trend towardinternational investment agreements with stricter investment rules, namely defensivemoves of developing countries concerned about foreign direct investment (FDI)diversion in favor of competing host countries. Accounting for spatial dependencein the formation of bilateral investment treaties and preferential trade agreementsthat contain investment provisions, we find that the increase in agreements withstricter provisions on investor-to-state dispute settlement and pre-establishmentnational treatment is a contagious process. Specifically, a developing country ismore likely to sign an agreement with weak investment provisions if other developingcountries that compete for FDI from the same developed country have previouslysigned agreements with similarly
Bilateral investment treaties; Competition for FDI; Investment provisions; Preferential trade agreements ; Spatial dependence