Determinants Of Foreign Direct Investment In Transition Economies, With Special Reference To Macedonia: Evidence From Gravity Model1

• Authors: Bardhyl Dauti
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper accounts for the main determinants of Foreign Direct Investment stocks to 5-South East European Countries and the 10-New Member States of the European Union countries by using an augmented Gravity Model, for the purpose of calculating the potential levels of FDI stock in Macedonia. The study takes into account country specific institutional factors that determine foreign investors’ decisions from 20 core OECD countries to invest in SEE-5 and EU-NMS-10 countries. From the results of the study we find that gravity factors (market size and distance), institutional related factors (control of corruption, corruption perception index, regulatory quality, transition progress and WTO membership) and other traditional determinants of FDI (schooling, bilateral exports) appear to significantly determine inward FDI stock to the SEE region and new EU member states. The GMM estimates suggest that bilateral FDI stock is subject to persistence effects. The study additionally confirms the relatively strong gravitational character of Macedonia’s inward FDI stock.

Keywords

EN

Foreign Direct Investment; SEECs; Panel Econometrics; Gravity Model; F21

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: South East European Journal of Economics and Business
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 7-28

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2016-01-13

Contributors

author

Bardhyl Dauti

• Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics, State University of Tetova, Macedonia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/jeb-2015-0007