01862cas a2200277 a 4500 AALejournalIMF003588 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451861297 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ribakova, Elina. Foreign Direct Investment in Southeastern Europe : How (and How Much) Can Policies Help? / Elina Ribakova, Balazs Horvath, Dimitri Demekas, Yi Wu. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2005. 1 online resource (31 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Gravity factors explain a large part of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows in Southeastern Europe-a region not comprehensively covered before in econometric studies-but hostcountry policies also matter. Key are policies that affect relative unit labor costs, the corporate tax burden, infrastructure, and the trade regime. This paper develops the concept of potential FDI for each country, and uses its deviation from actual levels to estimate what policies can realistically be expected to achieve in terms of additional FDI. It also finds evidence that above a certain threshold, the importance of some policies for attracting FDI is distinctly different. Mode of access: Internet Demekas, Dimitri. Horvath, Balazs. Wu, Yi. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2005/110 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2005/110/001.2005.issue-110-en.xml IMF e-Library