This paper empirically assesses United States direct investment in the European Union. In that respect, market size, growth rate, labor costs, export flows and tariff barriers have already been shown to influence U.S. foreign direct investment in the European Union. The present paper enlarges the field of knowledge on the matter by: (i) exploring the impact of two locational determinants of for...

The purpose and research objective of this paper is the influence of foreign direct investments on the performance of domestic firms which is analyzed through a case study of Southeast Europe, and in particular of Macedonia. The conception of this analysis uses the methodology of the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys, which have been conducted on many countries using firmlevel data of representat...

This paper focuses on two major aspects of globalization: international trade and FDI and their impacts on manufacturing employment in Iran and study whether foreign direct investment and trade expansion with Asian and European partner played any role in shaping the Iranian manufacturing employment structure. This study incorporates globalization (KOF index), trade integration and FDI into a si...