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FDI and growth: evidence from a panel of european transition countries

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Title FDI and growth: evidence from a panel of european transition countries
FDI and growth: evidence from a panel of european transition countries
 
Creator Αστερίου, Δημήτριος
Ντάσιου, Ξένη
Γλυκοπάντης, Διονύσιος
 
Subject Επενδύσεις, Ξένες; Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, χώρες της; Οικονομική ανάπτυξη
Investments, Foreign; European Union countries; Economic growth
 
Description This paper studies the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on economic growth, measured by the increase in per capita growth of GDP for ten European countries in transition, utilising an unbalanced panel data set of annual observations from 1990 to 2003. The net inflows of foreign investments, and the net portfolio investments, both as a percentage of GDP, are used as FDI proxies. The results show that planned foreign investments have a positive and significant effect on the economic growth of these economies. On the other hand, portfolio investments are found to have a negative and insignificant effect. These results could be explained by the fact that stock markets are not fully developed in transition countries, while their relatively cheaper labour makes them quite attractive to planned FDI
 
Publisher University of Piraeus
 
Date 2007-02-02
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://spoudai.unipi.gr/index.php/spoudai/article/view/1229
 
Source SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business; Vol 55, No 1 (2005); 9-30
2241-424X
1105-8919
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://spoudai.unipi.gr/index.php/spoudai/article/view/1229/1308
 
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