The attractiveness factors of foreign direct investment in Algeria : the ARDL bounds testing approach (1990-2016)‎

Abstract EN

This paper aims to study the most important attractiveness determinants and factors of foreign direct investment in light of the economic and political reforms adopted by the Algeria government since 1990.

To achieve the objectives of this paper, an econometric study is adopted using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach over the period 1990-2016.

The results of this study showed that There is a positive long-term relationship between the gross fixed of capital formation, the real exchange rate, trade openness, government spending, economic growth rate and the foreign direct investment, while there is a negative relationship between other explanatory variables as: taxation, inflation rate, interest rate, and monetary aggregate