Artículos de revistas
Analysis and models of bilateral investment treaties using a social networks approach
Fecha
2010-04-11Registro en:
Saban, Daniela; Bonomo, Flavia; Stier, Nicolas; Analysis and models of bilateral investment treaties using a social networks approach; Elsevier; Physica A: Statistical Mechanics And Its Applications; 389; 17; 11-4-2010; 3661-3673
0378-4371
Autor
Saban, Daniela
Bonomo, Flavia
Stier, Nicolas
Resumen
Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) are agreements between two countries for the reciprocal encouragement, promotion and protection of investments in each other’s territories by companies based in either country. Germany and Pakistan signed the first BIT in 1959 and since then, BITs are one of the most popular and widespread form of international agreement. In this work we study the proliferation of BITs using a social networks approach. We propose a network growth model that dynamically replicates the empirical topological characteristics of the BIT network.