The Balkans: Foreign Direct Investment and EU Accession

Bitzenis, Aristidis

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“…Moreover, the prevailing dogma, in the transition region, suggested that integration into the EU would lead to the greater inflow of FDI (Stosic et al 2011;Bitzenis, 2013). The main logic behind this assumption is that countries which are on the way to the EU membership have to adopt EU legislation that otherwise would not have been adopted.…”

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Institutions in Transition: Is the Eu Integration Process Relevant for Inward Fdi in Transition European Economies?

Delevic¹,

Heim²

2017

EJEF

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This research challenges the contemporary view of economic policy makers in transition European economies that the EU integration process will lead to a greater inflow of Foreign Direct Investments (FDI), thereby increasing living standards. With the Brexit referendum, the integration of the EU has been threatened by a distressing existential question: is EU membership valuable for transition countries if even developed countries (like the UK) vote to leave or decided not to align like Switzerland and Norway in the past? Our analysis considers the success of several countries in Eastern Europe in attracting and benefiting from FDI on their way to EU membership. Analyzing a 13-year panel data of 16 transition countries, we found no statistically significant positive association between FDI inflow and EU accession. We argue, that it is also important to consider the welfare for domestic economies that can emerge from those investments. We illustrate this through the case study of a successful combination of institutional development and local content policies implementation accompanied by sufficient FDI inflows in a non-EU country -Kazakhstan.

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Institutions in Transition: Is the Eu Integration Process Relevant for Inward Fdi in Transition European Economies?

Delevic¹,

Heim²

2017

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“…Such measures were insisted on because it was believed (erroneously as we have seen above) that the root cause of the crisis was the 'dirigiste' institutional structures and policies of these countries. The IMF policy programmes for the affected Asian countries may be faulted for a number of important reasons 1 .…”

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“…Article 25, paragraph 1, of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights refers to some fundamental human rights related to the aspects of self-determination. These fundamentals are that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control 1 . Moreover, these rights also mentioned in other international instruments, such is International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, where, among others, emphasize that "All peoples have the right of self-determination.…”

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Economic Sustainability of a New Born State

Hoti¹,

Bekteshi²

2015

Eur. j. econ. bus. stud.

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“…Foreign direct investment is considered to be an effective way of raising the comparative advantages of a country, and as such most relate to developing countries that need internationalization of operations, in which the main actors are precisely multinationals [41], [42]. The basic motives of each multinational company for investing capital in a foreign country, among other things, are profits, a new market, favorable conditions for the use of resources, and the benefits of the tax system [43], [44].…”

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Foreign Direct Investment in the Function of Economic Development - Example of Selected Countries in the Western Balkans

Domazet

Marjanović²

2017

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Abstract. The main aim of this work is to determine, on the basis of empirical research, whether and to what extent foreign direct investment has impact on the overall economic development of selected countries in the Western Balkans. Analyses made for the purpose of this paper were performed on the basis of available secondary data possessed by the World Bank for the period of 2000-2012. The research methodology involved the use of the techniques of linear regression and correlation analysis. The first task was to determine whether there is an impact of foreign direct investment on the overall economic development of these countries. Where such influence occurred, it was necessary to define its level in comparison to the influence of other variables. The results of the analysis in this paper suggest that inflow of foreign direct investment does not affect to a significant extent the economic development of selected countries in the Western Balkans.

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The Balkans: Foreign Direct Investment and EU Accession

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Institutions in Transition: Is the Eu Integration Process Relevant for Inward Fdi in Transition European Economies?

Institutions in Transition: Is the Eu Integration Process Relevant for Inward Fdi in Transition European Economies?

Economic Sustainability of a New Born State

Foreign Direct Investment in the Function of Economic Development - Example of Selected Countries in the Western Balkans

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