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Reaching the credibility threshold

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Reaching the credibility threshold
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BITs, FDI, and the rich autocratic regime
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Teo
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Kwok Chuen Terrence
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Kwok Chuen Terrence Teo
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Robert R
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R Daniel
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R Daniel Kelemen
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Paul
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Stephan M
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Stephan M Haggard
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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This dissertation asks how autocrats can resolve domestic commitment problems that inhibit investment and growth. This is a particularly salient issue with respect to developing countries attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Many scholars have explored how bilateral investment treaties (BITs) may help governments provide policy assurance to multinational firms and attract FDI. Unfortunately, this research remains inconclusive. I argue that a credible commitment to property rights protection is the key factor in attracting FDI, not the level of property rights per se. I further argue that the impact of BITs on FDI depends on a country’s domestic political institutions. In particular, BITs can help some authoritarian governments reach the credibility threshold and attract foreign direct investment. I use a combination of formal and quantitative methods to assess my theory. I first construct a signaling model that shows how a BIT can help firms distinguish between committed and less committed governments. In addition, I use the theory of global games to illustrate how a BIT can facilitate the coordination of investment decisions by multinational firms. Next, I use multilevel models to examine the variation in BIT formation across developing countries, and matching and instrumental variables models to assess the impact of BITs on FDI among authoritarian regimes. In sum, my analysis shows that the impact of BITs on FDI depends on the type of authoritarian regime: BITs attract more FDI in military and multiparty authoritarian regimes. It also explains the variation in BIT formation and FDI across authoritarian regimes. My findings that the effects of international treaties are contingent on domestic political institutions which may be reinforcing in some instances, and undermining in others, has implications beyond the literature on property rights and development to issues of international security and human rights.
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Political Science
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Investments, Foreign
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Authoritarianism
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Treaties
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (xi, 154 p. : ill.)
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Ph.D.
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by Kwok Chuen Terence Teo
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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ETD doctoral
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Teo
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Kwok Chuen
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Terrence
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2014-09-29 12:37:56
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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Access to this PDF has been restricted at the author's request. It will be publicly available after October 30th, 2016.
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