Goals of the Investing Across Borders Indicators

Nowadays doing business internationally implies dealing with different types of national regulations and relationships. This paper analyses two types of indicators from the perspective of starting a business in a foreign country, and investing in a specific sector in a foreign country. Investing across borders indicators herein developed provide only a part of the picture of economies’ investment climates and have to be used in conjunction with other tools to analyse business environments. In the last part, it is presented a case study about Romanian business environment from a foreign investment perspective. Classification-JEL: F23, G38