FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN THE COUNTRIES FROM THE EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP IN THE LAST DECADE

Dana Bako () and Stefana Varvari
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Dana Bako: Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

A chapter in EURINT Proceedings 2013, 2013, vol. 1, pp 333-346 from Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University

Abstract: Nations and regions compete between them in order to attract high flows of foreign investments, due to their contribution to the national, regional and local development. Foreign investments contribute to the development of a competitive business environment, representing the main instrument for ensuring economic growth and modernization at national, regional or local level. Foreign direct investments have played an important role in offering supplementary capital for investments in the countries from the former URSS (much needed by these economies), and also have a great importance in the development of these states, in promoting the market economy and competition and contributed significantly to the increased level of competition in these countries. The authors analyzed the evolution of foreign direct investments (FDI) in the six countries that are members in the Eastern Partnership: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine over the last decade and, for comparison, Romania and Bulgaria were chosen as they are the newest member states of the European Union. After presenting the FDI inflows and outflows in these six countries, the authors also underlined the evolution of FDI for different types of investments (mergers and acquisitions and Greenfield investment). The last part of the paper presents the main conclusions drawn from the analysis.

Keywords: foreign direct investments flows; mergers & acquisitions; Greenfield investments; attraction index; inward FDI potential index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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