Foreign Direct Investment in the Czech Republic: Environment, Structure and Efficiency in the Manufacturing Sector

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alena Zemplinerova ◽  
Vladimir Benacek
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
The Czech Republic

Investment Attractiveness of Visegrad Group Countries

2014 ◽  
pp. 740-775 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Dorożyński ◽  
Anetta Kuna-Marszałek
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Geographic Proximity ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Visegrad Group

The aims of this chapter are to evaluate the main determinants of the inflow of FDI into selected countries of CEE and to examine the volume, dynamics, and structure of FDI inflow into these countries. Due to certain similarities, the authors focus the analysis on four countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. The reasons are geographic proximity, political, economic, and cultural similarities, as well as shared experiences of economic transformation. This chapter focuses on matters pertaining to foreign direct investment, mostly on the reasons motivating FDI inflow in light of selected studies and theories. The authors also provide characteristics of the dynamics and structure of FDI inflow into the V4 countries. The final part of the chapter compares investment attractiveness, the system of incentives, and identifies barriers facing investors in the analyzed countries.

scholarly journals Size of foreign direct investment and firm characteristics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hecht Veronika ◽  
Moritz Michael ◽  
Noska Patricia ◽  
Schäffler Johannes
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Sample Selection ◽  
Indirect Measurement ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Czech Republic

This paper focuses on the role of classifying types of foreign direct investment (FDI) for analysing the determinants of cross-border investment relationships. We base our investigation on a newly established firm-level data set of German multinational firms and their affiliates in the Czech Republic that allows various categorisations into vertical foreign direct investment (VFDI) and horizontal foreign direct investment (HFDI). Apart from data for conventional approaches to classifying FDI types, the surveyed information contained herein also includes a detailed self-assessment of the firms with respect to investment motives, and specifications on intra-firm trade and the flow of intermediate inputs. In order to correct for sample selection, we apply a two-step Heckman procedure by comparing multinational firms that have an affiliate in the Czech Republic to companies without investment abroad. The results for the direct measures of FDI types confirm theoretical expectations and previous empirical literature and stand in marked contrast to the outcome for indirect measurement concepts. Our finding leads us to the conclusion that one should be more cautious in interpreting differences between vertical and horizontal FDI when using approximative classification concepts.

Trade and FDI Between the Czech Republic and Portugal

2017 ◽  
pp. 200-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenka Novotná ◽  
Inês Martins ◽  
António Moreira
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
European Economies

With the collapse of communism, some former communist States of Eastern Europe managed to muddle through their way to a market economy and entered the European Union. This brought about the acceleration of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) among the European economies and accelerated the globalization process. Although there is plenty of research on FDI and trade among countries, the aim of this chapter is to analyze how trade between Portugal and the Czech Republic have evolved over form 2000 until 2015. The chapter seeks to complement previous studies on FDI and trade as Portugal and the Czech Republic are part of the European Union, but have had different historical, cultural, and economic paths. The main conclusion of the chapter is that trade between both countries has grown significantly. The main reason affecting trade between both countries is the economic unrest Portugal has been through since 2008.

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