... professor of international business at the University of Reading, UK, and at Rutgers University. He has been researching into the economics of international direct investment and the multinational ... editor or coeditor for a number of books, including Putting Development First: the Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs, International Trade and Sustainable Development, and others. ... FDI trends and their salient features, provides a general introduction to BITs and DTTs, and summarizes the findings of the studies contained in this compendium as to the impact of these agreements...