Foreign Direct Investment Impact on Economic Indicators of the Baltic Countries

• Authors: Aida Barkauskaite , Violeta Naraskeviciute
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The foreign direct investment movement is becoming increasingly important nowadays. Various studies are conducted to determine the influence of foreign direct investments on certain countries. That is why it is important and useful to evaluate and compare how foreign direct investments affect the economic indicators of the Baltic countries - countries having similar economies. Methods used in the analysis are: logical comparative and generalization methods, systematic literature analysis and methods of mathematical statistics. The results have showed that foreign direct investments have positive influence on economies through gross domestic product and labour productivity growth in all Baltic countries, though foreign direct investments do not influence the unemployment rate in all Baltic countries

Keywords

EN

Baltic countries; economic indicators; foreign direct investment

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Economics and Business
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-67

Dates

published

2016-04-01

online

2016-06-10

Contributors

author

Aida Barkauskaite

• Kaunas University of Technology

author

Violeta Naraskeviciute

• Kaunas University of Technology

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eb-2016-0009