A Study of Relationship between Evaluation of Invesstment Environment and Foreign Direct Investment

• Main Authors: Sheng-Wen Huang, 黃聖文
• Other Authors: Koong-Lian Kao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37401810184590920930

碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 95 === International trade has been on the path of growth, due to the removal of trade barriers as well as the advancement of communication and transportation technology, not only promote the growth of trade, but also bring foreign investment for many countries. Moreover, growth of Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) has huge with national legislation opening up.Influence of FDI on the development of the global economy is getting more and more important. The impact of choosing the destination of investment for enterprises is fairly serious. Therefore, assessing carefully for the investment environment and selecting a suitable site are the top priority for the investment. The evaluation of investment environment which are assessed regularly by international academic institutions or non-government organizations in various countries. The study will discuss the relationship between evaluation of investment environment and FDI through the rank correlation analysis. Furthermore, through Content analysis, the study will also discuss indicator differences on assessment model of investment environment. After collecting information and statistical analysis, the following results have been obtained as follows, Firstly, according to World Economic Forum(WEF), World Bank(WB) investment environment ranking, countries or economies with better appraisals in investment environment, will attract more direct foreign investment; as for the country selection, enterprises will focus on the financial markets maturity and the financial regulations maturity of investment target. Secondly, the correlation coefficient of FDI and the rankings of investment environment of cities China, which were announced by CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Science), WB and Forbes Magazine is significant. The cities which investment environment ranked were high of the three, the absorptive capacity in FDI were better than the countries with poor investment environment; investors’ choice of city areas mostly lies on the economic characteristics of the city and then the city's commercial performance, and the related business indicators.