Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/219629 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Institute of Economic Research Working Papers No. 13/2015
Publisher: 
Institute of Economic Research (IER), Toruń
Abstract: 
The aim of this work was to present the similarities between the components of competitiveness and investment attractiveness as two complementary categories, and to show the role of new locational advantages in determining the level of investment attractiveness of a country. The other objective of this paper was to provide a comparative analysis of Central and Eastern European countries in terms of their investment attractiveness. Thus this paper was organized as follows: the first part of the paper focused on a country competitiveness and the traditional and new location advantages that determine its investment attractiveness in view of direct investment inflows in the light of M. Porter's model of a diamond, an eclectic paradigm of J. H. Dunning and new growth theories. The second part presented the results of investment attractiveness analysis including selected countries of CEE in the years 1995-2013. Comparing the investment attractiveness of Central and Eastern European countries shows that rather a narrow group of countries attract a greater amount of FDI and many more countries have experienced a decline in FDI. Therefore, the research results allow the conclusion that Central and Eastern Europe reduced its investment attractiveness over the past years. This means that the majority of Central and Eastern European countries are becoming less successful in attracting FDI, and therefore in shaping the environment in which foreign companies wish to conduct their business.
Subjects: 
investment attractiveness
Central and Eastern European countries
JEL: 
F21
O33
O52
O57
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Document Type: 
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