IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bbn/journl/2010_2_6_marinescu.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Link Between Exports And Inward Foreign Direct Investment: The Case Of Romania

Author

Listed:
  • NICOLAE MARINESCU

    (MTSTI Department, Faculty of Economics, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania)

  • CRISTINEL CONSTANTIN

    (MTSTI Department, Faculty of Economics, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania)

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between a country’s exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) by transnational corporations, with a focus on Romania. First, we lay out the theoretical background concerning the manner in which FDI shapes a country’s exports. Then, we give a short overview on the recent evolution of Romania’s foreign trade, highlighting sectors in which Romania has revealed a comparative advantage. Further, we take into consideration the increase of inward FDI and its main destinations within the Romanian economy. The influence of FDI on the competitiveness of Romanian exports is then analyzed in detail, employing correlation instruments. The findings lead us to the conclusion that from a statistical point of view, exports and inward FDI are not correlated in the case of Romania. Finally, we make some suggestions and policy recommendations both for attracting FDI and for stimulating the competitiveness of Romanian exports.

Suggested Citation

  • Nicolae Marinescu & Cristinel Constantin, 2010. "The Link Between Exports And Inward Foreign Direct Investment: The Case Of Romania," JOURNAL STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI NEGOTIA, Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Business.
    • Handle: RePEc:bbn:journl:2010_2_6_marinescu
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://tbs.ubbcluj.ro/RePEc/bbn/journl/Negotia_2_2010.pdf
    File Function: Revised version, 2010
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Gheorghe Zaman & Zizi Goschin, 2017. "Factors That Promote Export Convergence: A Spatial Analysis In Romania," Romanian Journal of Regional Science, Romanian Regional Science Association, vol. 11(1), pages 1-17, June.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    exports; foreign direct investment; Romania;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
    • O52 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Europe

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bbn:journl:2010_2_6_marinescu. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Cornelia Pop (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/fbubbro.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.