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Determinants of German Direct Investment in CEE Countries

Niklas Becker and Andrzej Cieślik
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Niklas Becker: Department of Macroeconomics and International Trade Theory, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, ul. Długa 44/50, PL-00241 Warszawa, Poland

JRFM, 2020, vol. 13, issue 11, 1-17

Abstract: This paper studies the determinants of German direct investment in the Central and Eastern European countries during the period 1996–2016 using the augmented Knowledge Capital model to identify the main reasons for foreign direct investment (FDI). The empirical results show increasing multinational enterprise (MNE) activity with growth in country-size and with growing similarities of countries, which supports the horizontal reason for FDI; while the difference in the share of skilled labor force associated with the vertical reason has no effect. Furthermore, the estimation results show unimportance of trade costs to the foreign market and the significance of the distance between source and host countries.

Keywords: Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries; German MNEs; foreign direct investment; knowledge capital model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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