Foreign direct investment and transition economies: empirical evidence from a panel data estimator

Kamal Upadhyaya, Franklin Mixon and Dharmendra Dhakal ()
Additional contact information
Dharmendra Dhakal: Tennessee State University

Economics Bulletin, 2007, vol. 6, issue 33, 1-9

Abstract: This paper identifies the factors that determine FDI inflows in the former socialist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. In our analysis, FDI inflows are modeled as a function of the market size (i.e., real GDP), inflation, the current account balance, the real exchange rate, openness and government regulation for the host country. Using data from 1995 to 2004, a panel data estimator suggests that the real exchange rate, openness of the economy and deregulation are the primary factors determining FDI inflows in these countries.

JEL-codes: F2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-08-21
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (11)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/pubs/EB/2007/Volume6/EB-07F20005A.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-07f20005

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().