FDI Convergence versus Real and Structural Convergence at the EU Level. An Approach Based on the GINI Coefficient

Vasile Alecsandru Strat () and Oana Popovici
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Vasile Alecsandru Strat: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania

Economia. Seria Management, 2015, vol. 18, issue 1, 150-162

Abstract: The main goal of this paper is to analyze the evolution of disparities registered among the European Union member states for several variables, indicating the real convergence, the structural convergence and the stocks of FDI. The paper provides an assessment of the linkage between these evolutions during 1993 to 2013, using a methodology based on time series of Gini coefficients, at the entire Union and also at the level of the new and the old EU member states. We found decreasing disparities in the stocks of FDI/capita, GDP/capita and GDP/capita produced in agriculture for the new member states, but oscillating evolutions for the old ones. We found evidence suggesting a positive relationship among these three phenomena. Therefore, FDI can be considered as an enhancer for both real and structural convergence in the EU and the new EU member states. The finding was not confirmed for the old member states.

Keywords: foreign direct investments; Gini coefficient; real convergence; structural convergence; European Union. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C1 F23 F45 O52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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