The Investment-Promotion Machines: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment Promotion in Central and Eastern Europe

The Investment-Promotion Machines: The Politics of Foreign Direct Investment Promotion in Central and Eastern Europe

A variety of foreign-led economies emerged in Central and Eastern Europe in the late 1990s. State economic strategies in the Visegrad Four region (V4) of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland have converged towards a distinct model of competition states. This article investigates the politics of investment attraction and promotion of particular investors within the states and regions...

Foreign Direct Investment : Effects , Complementarities , and Promotion

International Co-invention in Central and Eastern Europe: the Role of Foreign Direct Investment

International Co-Invention – characterized by patent applications where at least one of the co-inventor is foreign – has boomed in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 1990. A significant number of these patents arise out of various forms of R&D collaboration with multinationals. We explain this phenomenon, building on the concept of “idea gap” elaborated by Romer (1993): western multinationa...

The Effect of Investment Promotion on Foreign Direct Investment Inflow into Ghana

The paper investigated the effect of investment promotion (IP) on foreign direct investment flow (FDI) into Ghana. Cointegration among the variables was established using auto regressive distributed lag (ARDL) models in the presence of a mix of I (0) and I (1) variables. The control variables, inflation and trade openness were statistically significant in the short run. Whilst inflation exerted...

role of cultural iran in promotion of multilaieralism in central asia and caucasus

cultural iran is a scope that is more extended than the political territories of iran as a political unit. this concept means that cultural geography(mehdi moghanlo-1383-1) of iran is greater than its political geography which, according to history, has a long history extending west-east from kandahar to the euphrates and north-south from the persian gulf to the caucasus including transoxiana a...