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  • How EU integration and legacies mattered for foreign direct investment into Central and Eastern Europe
    Bandelj, Nina, 1975-, management
    This essay uses the case of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern Europe to stipulate how European Union (EU) integration affected the economic globalisation of the post-socialist ... region. Existing studies argue that expectations of impending EU membership had a direct effect on raising FDI inflows because they reduced perceived investment risks for potential investors. In contrast, I show that the EU accession process worked through an indirect effect on FDI: it influenced post-socialist states' efforts to promote FDI as a desirable strategy of economic development and the behaviour of firms. These state efforts, in turn, increased FDI inflows, net of conventional risk and return factors. Further analyses indicate that decisions about state FDI-promotion have been influenced not only by EU conditionality but also, and importantly, by particular legacies, namely the countries' initial choice of privatisation strategies, extent of reform during socialism and history of state sovereignty. Overall, the results suggest that EU integration and legacies of the past shape both the structural and the ideational context for domestic decision-making elites in Central and Eastern Europe, and may act not only as constraints but also as enabling conditions facilitating the global economic integration of the region.
    Source: Europe-Asia studies. - ISSN 0966-8136 (Vol. 62, no. 3, 2010, str. 481-501)
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 2010
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 29338205

source: Europe-Asia studies. - ISSN 0966-8136 (Vol. 62, no. 3, 2010, str. 481-501)
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