Econometric study to foreign investments and its determinants in Arabic countries (1980-2014)‎

Abstract EN

We aim from this study to determine the factors that have an impact on the direct foreign investment in different Arabic countries.

The possibility of existence a long-term equilibrium relationship between them was checked.

We concluded that there are a lot of affecting variables on direct foreign investment, but we chose only the important ones by using Cluster Analysis technique than we tested whether is there a relationship between them after we checked the stationary of their time series data which seem to be Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) type.

Its degrees and border interval have been determined.