This is the 13th volume in the series which contains a collection of international instruments relating to foreign direct investment (FDI) and transnational corporations (TNCs). It is divided into three parts which cover: additional regional instruments; investment-related provisions in a number of additional free trade, economic partnership arrangements and framework agreements not covered in previous volumes; and the text of a number of additional prototype bilateral treaties for the promotion and protection of foreign investments (BITs) not covered in previous volumes.

This book surveys the contributions that economic analysis has made to our understanding of why multinational enterprises exist.

This book provides a robust guideline to both policymakers and researchers wishing to identify and categorize the factors that influence the process of technology flows across national boundaries, as well as the economic theories and legal arguments that may support a given position in international forums. In particular, the work discusses how certain negotiation strategies may optimally deal with such barriers and lead to more effective institutional arrangements in the current global geography of technological development.