OECD member countries have committed themselves to maintaining and expanding the freedom for international capital movements and current invisible operations under the legally binding OECD Codes of Liberalisation. This publication explains the content and structure of the OECD Codes.

Explains the content and structure of the OECD Codes of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and Current Invisible Operations and the way they are implemented to achieve progressive liberalisation.

Explains the content and structure of the OECD Codes of Liberalisation of Capital Movements and Current Invisible Operations and the way they are implemented to achieve progressive liberalisation.

This book focuses on the relationship between FDI and financial service liberalization in the context of the WTO. By conducting an economic assessment on the extent of GATS liberalization in commercial banking it seeks to empirically clarify if the multilateral liberalization efforts under the WTO promote FDI.

This volume examines the standards of treatment, demanded from host states, that form the basis of contemporary international investment protection. It analyses the core standards commonly contained in bilateral and multilateral investment treaties, including 'fair and equitable treatment', 'full protection and security', and the non-discrimination standards. The burgeoning case-law before arbitral tribunals has exercised a huge influence on how these standards are interpreted in practice. The essays in this volume, by leading practitioners and scholars in the field of investment arbitration, analyse the case-law and provide a framework for a common consensus to emerge on how the standards should be applied in future.

International law dictates that states have sovereignty over their own monetary and fiscal affairs. In practice, however globalisation and the powers of organisations like the IMF and EU are thought to have significantly eroded this idea. This book offers a legal analysis of the development of monetary sovereignty and its meaning in today's world.

The Commentary on the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) provides a unique, article-by-article, textual analysis of this important international agreement. The ECT outlines a multilateral framework for cross-border cooperation in the energy sector based on the principles of open competitive markets and sustainable development.