Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39650 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 28-2003
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we estimate the effects of transition and political instability in the Eastern European and Balkan transition countries on their FDI inflows. For transition countries unaffected by political instability, FDI inflows in the 1990s were around 20 to 30% of those achieved by European market economies with similar economic characteristics. Progress with transition and reform increased transition economies’ ability to achieve their potential FDI inflows, but because of their progress in stabilization and macroeconomic performance, this transition gap was not closed very much in the 1990s. The Balkan countries also suffered additional shorfalls in FDI due to political instability. Our estimates show that these shortfalls were large.
Subjects: 
foreign direct investment
transition
political instability
political risk
JEL: 
F21
F23
P52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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