The question where to locate a company at regional level remains a very challenging issue because the regional attractiveness patterns for investments are very complex and dynamic. The paper gathers and analyses several studies that use quantitative methods to describe the mechanism of the...

The paper aims at identifying the development regions in Romania (corresponding to NUTS III classification), which have similar patterns regarding the investment environment and how these similarities evolved from 2006 to 2008, one year before and one year after becoming a member of the European...

Romania is one of the countries with wide regional development gaps that need to be reduced in order to obtain a balanced economic development. The European Union membership was hopped to bring new foreign direct investments in areas which lack financial capital, but soon after the integration...

The paper presents several results concerning the impact of foreign direct investments on labour productivity in different countries. The focus is on the labour productivity differences that exist between the foreign and domestic companies and on the way these differences evolve in the host...