Andreea TRIMBITAS • Andrei VECERDEA

Foreign Direct Investment Drivers in Romania

Expert Journal of Finance
1(1)
pp. 33-42
The Author(s). 2013

Received: December 6, 2013
Accepted: December 22, 2013
Published: December 29, 2013
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) represents a condition sine qua non for a sustainable development of Romania, taking into consideration the fact that the domestic capital is not enough to assure a positive and significant growth. The present study uses the multiple linear regression to determine the main factors which influence FDI level in Romania. The international reserve and the capital market index BET have a direct and positive impact on the foreign investment flow, while the short, medium and long private and public external debt proved to influence direct, but in a negative way, the FDI.
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Andreea TRIMBITAS
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania

Andrei VECERDEA
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania
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