Recent Trends and Challenges of Foreign Direct Investments Flows in European Union Countries

Georgeta Ilie

Knowledge Horizons - Economics, 2013, vol. 5, issue 3, 139-144

Abstract: Foreign direct investment (FDI) has become the major economic driver of globalisation, accounting for over half of all cross border investments. In the new context of the recent world economic crisis and subsequent economic downturn, FDI followed the world economic trend. FDI activity depends on a wide range of factors and conditions, including location-specific determinants and home country characteristics. The paper puts into discussion the main trends of EU inward FDI flows, and the locational factors that influence FDI flows in the EU member states.

Keywords: Foreign direct investments; economic crisis; intra and extra-flows; host country attractiveness; EU countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F43 F53 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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