Foreign direct investment and macroeconomic stability: The Turkish case

This study investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and macroeconomic stability for Turkey. To represent the macroeconomic stability, two main variables are examined. The first of these is inflation rate that represents the economic stability in real sector and the second one is real exchange rate representing the stability in the financial sector. In addition to these variables; market size, openess to trade and financial development variables are used as control-transmission variables. Used data are mothly and include the term from 2003 January to 2015 April. Emprical methods used in the study are unit root tests, cointegration analyses, VECM model and Granger causalitytest. Obtained emprical results show that fluctuations in inflation and real exchange rate have a negative and permanent effect on FDI which means that instabilities occured in real and financial markets negatively affect the inward FDI. Therefore, Turkey which has enough potential to attract FDI, has to provide stabilitiy in its macroeconomic indicators to attract more amount of FDI.