The Foreign Direct Investments and Economic and Politic Freedoms or Could We Trust the Words of the Local Landlord?

Marilen Pirtea and Bogdan Dima
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Marilen Pirtea: West University of Timişoara, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Romania

Timisoara Journal of Economics, 2008, vol. 1, issue 2, 207-218

Abstract: The foreign direct investments are depending not only of economic resources, structures, mechanisms and performances of hosting countries but also on their socio-economic, cultural and political conditions. The objective of this paper is to provide a general framework of the connections between economic and politic freedoms and the foreign investment inflows (FDI). Some empirical supports are obtaining from a sample of developing and emergent countries. The main conclusion is that “economic and politic freedoms matters for the evolution of foreign direct investments”.

Keywords: FDI; freedoms; STABILITY; index of economic freedom; Freedom in the World Index. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 K2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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