The CEEC as FDI Attractors: A Menace to the EU Periphery?

Galego, Aurora; Vieira, Carlos; Vieira, Isabel

doi:10.1080/1540496x.2004.11052585

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“…The findings by Galego, Vieira, and Vieira (2004) and Bevan and Estrin (2000) indicated that distance is ''negatively associated'' with FDI inflows (p. 16), which was supported by Bevan, Estrin, and Meyer (2001), who added that a common border exerts the opposite effect (the latter was also proved by Holland and Pain 1999). Notably, the analysis by Pusterla and Resmini (2005) and Resmini (2000), which focused on manufacturing investments, confirmed these findings by specifying the importance of the proximity to the European Union=Western Europe.…”

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confidence: 62%

Investment Obstacles in the Manufacturing Sector in FYR Macedonia: Do the Subsector Specifics Matter?

Bitzenis

Nushkova²

2011

Journal of East-West Business

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We provide clear insights into the key foreign direct investment obstacles for the manufacturing sector in FYR of Macedonia, an EU candidate country. The survey results, based on data for 79 manufacturing companies, revealed that the investors in this particular sector perceive the bureaucratic and administrative constraints, corruption and bribery, and the lack of law enforcement as three major investment obstacles. Furthermore, we found that the perception of the investment obstacles largely differ depending on the industry the companies operate in, the country of origin, and the export orientation. Therefore, we recommend a tailor-made approach in pursuing the national investment promotion policies and strategies.

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Section: Proximitysupporting

confidence: 62%

Investment Obstacles in the Manufacturing Sector in FYR Macedonia: Do the Subsector Specifics Matter?

Bitzenis

Nushkova²

2011

Journal of East-West Business

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“…MENA countries, especially those in our sample, have taken major steps toward creating an environment conducive to FDI and exports. Opening up to international trade was thought of as a growth and FDI catalyst, and indeed, it has been identified as a major determinant Downloaded by [New York University] at 17:52 11 July 2015 of FDI, as in Carr et al (2001) and Galego et al (2004). Attracting FDI became more challenging with the repeated political turmoil in the region.…”

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confidence: 98%

Foreign Direct Investment and LDC Exports: Evidence from the MENA Region

AbuAl-Foul

Soliman

2008

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

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This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on manufacturing exports in four Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries. The sensitivity of merchandise exports, manufacturing exports, and the share of manufacturing exports in total merchandise exports to two measures of FDI activity is tested using panel data spanning 1975-2003. The findings suggest that FDI activity positively affects the host country's merchandise and manufacturing exports. Nevertheless, FDI activity is still short of generating any increase in the share of manufacturing exports in merchandise exports.

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“…2 Other studies, in addition to the foregoing explanatory variables, have also examined in greater detail the role of natural resources, agglomeration economies and infrastructure (Campos and Kinoshita, 2003), of corruption (Smarzynska and Wei, 2000), of the methods of privatization, of specific policies that affect profitability of FDI and of host-country labour skills (Carstensen and Toubal, 2004). Yet other studies have been motivated by the desire to identify the long-term potential for FDI in the transition economies (Henriot, 2003), and to determine whether current FDI flows to these countries come at the expense of other potential host countries (Buch et al , 2001;Galego et al , 2004).…”

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The Effects of Transition and Political Instability on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: Central Europe and the Balkans

2005

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This paper examines the effects of transition and of political instability on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to the transition economies of Central Europe, the Baltics and the Balkans. We find that FDI flows to transition economies unaffected by conflict and political instability exceed those that would be expected for comparable West European countries. Success with stabilization and reform increased the volume of FDI inflows. In the case of Balkan counties, conflict and instability reduced FDI inflows below what one would expect for comparable West European countries, and reform and stabilization failures further reduced FDI to the region. Thus, we find that the economic costs of instability in the Balkans in terms of foregone FDI have been quite high.JEL classifications: F21, F23, P52.

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The CEEC as FDI Attractors: A Menace to the EU Periphery?

Cited by 40 publications

References 12 publications

Investment Obstacles in the Manufacturing Sector in FYR Macedonia: Do the Subsector Specifics Matter?

Investment Obstacles in the Manufacturing Sector in FYR Macedonia: Do the Subsector Specifics Matter?

Foreign Direct Investment and LDC Exports: Evidence from the MENA Region

The Effects of Transition and Political Instability on Foreign Direct Investment Inflows: Central Europe and the Balkans

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