Abstract:
This study tried to extract the effects of economic integration on foreign direct investment by comparing the performance of an economically integrated and an unintegrated country , spain and Turkey , respectively. Locational determinants of foreign direct investment and appropriate proxies to test their significance , which have been shaped through the last three decades by the discussions of the students of the subject, were used to compare the locational attractiveness of the countries for foreign investors . In accordance with the huge literaure in this area , the main result of the study was the acceptance of the existence of the positive effects of economic integration on foreign direct investment.
