This paper examines the impact of corruption on foreign direct investment inflows for ten Central and Eastern European states. The paper attempts to answer the question: what is the role of corruption in attracting foreign direct investments? Using the data from UNCTAD for foreign direct...

In the course of the economic and financial crisis, investment activity, which was not very strong to begin with, in Europe and especially the Eurozone caved in. In relation to gross domestic product, fixed capital formation declined by four percentage points since 2008. Already prior to the...

Im Zuge der Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise ist die ohnehin nicht kräftige Investitionstätigkeit in Europa und insbesondere im Euroraum eingebrochen; in Relation zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt sind die Bruttoanlageinvestitionen seit 2008 um vier Prozentpunkte gesunken. Schon vor der Krise war in Teilen...