Determinants of foreign direct investment in advanced business services

Artur Klimek ()
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Artur Klimek: Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, ul. Komandorska 118/120, 53-345, Wrocław, Poland

Acta Oeconomica, 2020, vol. 70, issue 3, 407-421

Abstract: This paper is aimed at investigating determinants of recent flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into advanced business services (ABS) in the European Union with the distinction between “old” (till 2004) and “new” member states (after 2004 extension). Special attention is put on the Visegrád countries. The factors affecting location decisions of multinational corporations were analysed at the national and regional level. The latter approach proved to be very effective due to the fact that foreign companies operating in ABS are highly unequally distributed across economies. Indeed, there are only few regions in economies attracting bulk of the operations in ABS. The research method applied in the paper is negative binomial regression, which measures the probability of occurrence of an ABS foreign firm in an economy or a region taking into consideration its characteristics. This research combines macroeconomic, regional and firm-level data. The explanatory variables are divided into two groups: demand and supply. The main conclusion is the high significance of the supply factors. In other words, foreign companies focus on locations offering large number of skilled workers at reasonable prices. The key recommendation for governments interested in attracting ABS type of investment is to focus on the quality of human capital.

Keywords: foreign direct investment; advanced business services; regions; European Union; Visegrád countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
Note: An earlier version of the paper was presented in the European Trade Study Group Conference in Helsinki, September 8–10, 2016.
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