“…Empirically, an extensive body of existing studies have investigated the relationship between inward FDI and economic growth in the host countries (see, Akinlo, 2004;Borensztein, Geogorie, & Lee, 1998;Carbonell & Werner, 2018;Choong, Yusop, & Soo, 2005;Fu, 2008;Kotrajaras, 2010;Li & Liu, 2005;Mirela et al, 2015;Rehman, 2016;Sahoo & Mathiyazhagan, 2003;Sultanuzzaman, Fan, Akash, Wang, & Shakij, 2018;Tang & Tan, 2015). For instance, Gherghina, Simionescu, & Hudea, 2019 investigated the impact of inward FDI, economic growth and institutional quality during 2003-2016 for 11 Central and Eastern European countries.…”