Sovereign Investment

Karl P. Sauvant is Resident Senior Fellow and Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Before that, he was Director of UNCTAD's Investment Division. He is the author of The Effect of Treaties on Foreign Direct Investment (Oxford University Press, 2009 with Lisa Sachs). Lisa Sachs is the Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment. She is the author of The Effect of Treaties on FOreign Direct Investment (Oxford University Press, 2009 with Karl P. Sauvant. Wouter P.F. Schmit Jongbloed is an Associate with the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment and a Research Fellow at Columbia Law School.

"Sovereign Investment: Concerns and Policy Reactions is to be welcomed as a comprehensive manual, bringing together an excellent line-up of authors from academia, international organizations, law firms and think tanks and offering an in-depth analysis on a crucial and topical issue." --Catharine Titi, Research Assistant at the University of Siegen"This edited volume makes an important contribution towards deepening the understanding of these issues. It brings together contributions by leading authorities with diverse academic and professional backgrounds, including representatives of the IMF, OECD, academic institutions, law firms, and multinational enterprises, to provide an interdisciplinary analysis of the international activities of government-owned entities and their political and regulatoryimplications. It addresses critical questions related to the regulatory environment surrounding sovereign investment, including the rules and procedures that should govern this investment and the appropriatebodies that should enforce them." --Journal of International Business Studies"This collection of essays provides valuable, in-depth economic and policy insights into the role of sovereign investment during and after the global financial crisis. Many essays include detailed and carefully collected original data on SWFs and SOEs. Not infrequently, the authors offer diverse views and conclusions, highlighting the controversial role of investments by sovereign entities." -Claudia Annacker, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonLLP, Paris, France, ICSID Review, Vol. 29, No. 1

• List of contributors ; Foreword by Jeffrey D. Sachs ; Acknowledgements ; Part One: The rise of sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises ; Chapter 1. Sovereign investment: An introduction (Wouter P.F. Schmit Jongbloed, Lisa E. Sachs and Karl P. Sauvant) ; Chapter 2. Sovereign wealth funds: An overview (Mark Gordon and Sabastian V. Niles) ; Chapter 3. Sovereign wealth funds: A developing country perspective (Stephany Griffith-Jones and Jose Antonio Ocampo) ; Chapter 4. Sovereign wealth funds and the crisis: Investment managers or providers of liquidity? (Paola Subacchi) ; Chapter 5. The international activities and effects of state-owned enterprises (Daniel M. Shapiro and Steven Globerman) ; Part Two: Regulatory concerns ; Chapter 6. Sovereign wealth funds and global finance (Katharina Pistor) ; Chapter 7. National security and foreign government ownership restrictions on foreign investment: Predictability for investors at the national level (Mark A. Clodfelter and Francesca M. Soria Guerrero) ; Chapter 8. Are sovereign wealth fund investments politically biased? A comparison with mutual funds (Rolando Avendano and Javier Santiso) ; Chapter 9. Sovereign concerns (Jose E. Alvarez) ; Chapter 10. Sovereign wealth funds and national security (W. Michael Reisman and Patrick DeSouza) ; Part Three: Changing rules for state-controlled entities? ; Chapter 11. Sovereign wealth funds and regulation: Some conceptual issues (Alan M. Rugman) ; Chapter 12. The evolution of the essential security exception in U.S. trade and investment agreements (James Mendenhall) ; Chapter 13. Do the rules need to be changed for state-controlled entities? The case of sovereign wealth funds (Edwin M. Truman) ; Chapter 14. The U.S. approach to sovereign wealth funds and the role of CFIUS (Clay Lowery) ; Chapter 15. Lessons from CFIUS for national security reviews of foreign investment (Alan P. Larson, Alexander A. Berengaut, Mark Plotkin, and David N. Fagan) ; Chapter 16. The Canadian policy response to sovereign direct investment (A. Edward Safarian) ; Chapter 17. Sovereign wealth funds and the German policy reaction (Thomas Jost) ; Chapter 18. The regulation of sovereign wealth funds in the European Union: Can the supranational level limit the rise of national protectionism? (Philippe Gugler and Julien Chaisse) ; Chapter 19. Foreign government-controlled investors and recipient country investment policies: Overview of the work of the OECD (Kathryn Gordon and David Gaukrodger) ; Chapter 20. Sovereign wealth funds and the IMF (Udaibir S. Das, Adnan Mazarei, and Alison Stuart) ; Conclusions ; Chapter 21. Foreign direct investment by state-controlled entities at a crossroad of economic history: Conference report of the rapporteur (Maya Steinitz)