C. Căruntu, G. Dobrotă, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration, “Constantin Brâncuşi” University of Târgu-Jiu, Romania The manifestation of the global fi nancial crisis severely aff ected the foreign trade worldwide. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the impact of the fi nancial and economic crisis on foreign trade at the level of countries and groups ofcountries that ...

This paper investigates the empirical evidence on the link between foreign direct investment and trade (export and import) in Turkey over the period from 1992:01 to 2008:04 by using the minimum LM unit root test for stationarity; Granger and Dolado-Lüthkepohl tests for causality. The test results based on the bi-variate VAR model indicate that there is no evidence of causality between foreign d...

Extending Ireland’s (1994) model, this paper analyzes an international economy where cash or credit can be used for payment. Foreign trade credit is more costly than its domestic analog. A depreciation of the real exchange rate is associated with an external surplus and a reduced share of imports purchased with credit. Economic growth slows when foreign trade credit becomes the predominant mean...

Nowadays, Foreign Capital Inflows (FCIs) are considered as a catalyst for economic development and an important source of transferring technology and foreign exchange earnings from developed to developing countries. The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of FCIs (which include foreign direct investment, personal remittances and official development investment) on economic growth in...

foreign direct investment has been a key topic in development literature for a long time. many economists have written articles on the on recipient’s macroeconomic variables, transfer of capital and technology. the improvement of managerial and human resources, promotion of foreign trade with its emphasized role on economic growth of recipients. other economists have an opposite view. they have...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is frequently regarded as a key driver of global economic integration because it brings job opportunities, capital investment, and business experience. The current study examines the impact of foreign direct investment on Afghanistan's economic growth using time-series data from 2007 to 2019, which are collected from the World Bank and the International Monetary ...

Using fixed effects panel data approach, this paper empirically examines the effects of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) on growth in 13 transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, and the Baltic region (CEEB). Our analysis suggests that significant positive effect of trade on growth is a robust result for transition economies of this region. In addition, domestic investment ap...

T he main objective of this paper was the investigation of the impact of the trade openness on economic growth in Pakistan. We have been employed both the Johensen and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Co-integration together with ECM Techniques for the period 1975-2016. The empirical estimated results are the sound evidence that there exists a short...

This paper reviews some of the recent advances in our understanding of the determinants of firms’ choices between trade and foreign direct investment (fdi) as means by which to serve their overseas markets. Over the past two decades, fdi has grown much more rapidly than trade flows. The great majority of these investment flows have been between developed countries with similar factor endowments...