Foreign Direct Investment in Southeastern Europe: How (and How Much) Can Policies Help?

By Elina Ribakova, Balázs Horváth, Dimitri G Demekas, Yi Wu

June 1, 2005

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Elina Ribakova, Balázs Horváth, Dimitri G Demekas, and Yi Wu. Foreign Direct Investment in Southeastern Europe: How (and How Much) Can Policies Help?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

Gravity factors explain a large part of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in Southeastern Europe-a region not comprehensively covered before in econometric studies-but hostcountry policies also matter. Key are policies that affect relative unit labor costs, the corporate tax burden, infrastructure, and the trade regime. This paper develops the concept of potential FDI for each country, and uses its deviation from actual levels to estimate what policies can realistically be expected to achieve in terms of additional FDI. It also finds evidence that above a certain threshold, the importance of some policies for attracting FDI is distinctly different.

Subject: Corporate income tax, Foreign direct investment, Foreign exchange, Labor costs, Stocks

Keywords: Aggregate FDI panel regression, Cross-section regression, FDI flow, FDI stock, Source country, WP

Publication Details

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31
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Working Paper No. 2005/110
Stock No:

WPIEA2005110
ISBN:

9781451861297
ISSN:

1018-5941

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