Axel Berger
German Development Institute
57 Papers
288 Citations
Axel Berger is an academic researcher from German Development Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Investment (macroeconomics) & Foreign direct investment. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 55 publications.
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Papers
Do environmental provisions in trade agreements make exports from developing countries greener
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the trade effects of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and showed that environmental provisions can help reduce dirty exports and increase green exports from developing countries.
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More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!
TL;DR: The authors focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows.
China’s Impact on the Global Wind Power Industry
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether China's transformative influence extends to the new green economy and identified five corridors of influence and investigated their relevance for the wind energy industries, concluding that the size and rapid growth of the Chinese market have a major influence on competitive parameters in the global wind power industry.
More Stringent BITs, Less Ambiguous Effects on FDI? Not a Bit!
TL;DR: The authors focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows.
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Environmental provisions in trade agreements: defending regulatory space or pursuing offensive interests?
TL;DR: The increasing uptake of environmental provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is well documented, but little is known about why countries prefer certain types of provisions over others as discussed by the authors, except that they tend to be more environmentally friendly.