This paper examines the major economic and institutional factors underlying the surge in foreign direct investment (FDI … changes in the institutional-legal status of foreign capital are, in large measure, responsible for the rapid increase in FDI … in FDI inflows to the country. Finally the paper addresses the long-term negative effects that rapidly growing profit and …

Focusing more on the evolution of the Romanian external trade and FDI inflows after 2007 - the year of Romania's EU … integration - the paper provides insights in the trade and FDI inflows determinants in the context of the convergence process and … over the period 2000-2010, and there were also large FDI inflows in the economy, mostly until 2008. Although the data …