The Analysis of Investment Environment and Foreign Direct Investment Prognostication: Lithuanian Case

• Authors: Ligita Gaspareniene
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this article is to research the investment environment and to prognosticate the trends of FDI in Lithuania. The methods of the research include systematic and comparative analysis of the scientific literature and linear regression and trend analysis. The results of the research have revealed that the trend and amount of FDI in Lithuania strongly correlate. The linear regression equation is also growing, which proposes that over the next two years FDI in Lithuania should increase.

Keywords

EN

Foreign direct investment (FDI); FDI prognostication; investment environment; Lithuania

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Economics and Business
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 12-17

Dates

published

2015-08-01

online

2015-11-05

Contributors

author

Ligita Gaspareniene

• Mykolas Romeris University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eb-2015-0002