Key words:
Foreign direct investments, multinational companies, global and international flows of FDI, globalization strategy.

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Monetization, monetization channels, the return on investment (return on investment, ROI), social media, social networking, social media marketing, ROI measurement scheme, monetization model.

The analysis of trade and economic collaboration in the investment sphere between Ukraine and countries of European Union during 1999–2009 on a background a world financial-economic crisis is done.

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Direct foreign investments, economic crisis, structure of investments, European investing.

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Foreign direct investment, investment potential, innovation, innovation development, Ukraine, countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

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Der Staatshaushaltsplan, Koeffizient der Schulden, das Budgetdefizit, Index der wirtschaftlichen Freiheit.

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Foreign investments, national economy, government regulation, regulation of investments, national interests, economic policy, investment climate, economic development.

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Transnationalization, foreign direct investments, regionalization, capital, financial market, globalization.

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State policy, direct foreign investments, transnationalization process, transnational company (TNC).

The paper studies and analyses the global flows of foreign direct investments on the whole and determines the Ukraine’s participation, in particular. The role of transnational companies in the processes of direct investments is studied, and trends of the forms and methods’ development are analyzed for internationalization
of international companies’ activity.

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Foreign direct investments, transnational company, global city, mergers and acquisitions strategy, international business, approaches to international business.

Trade in services differs from trade in physical goods. This article highlights some effects of liberalization of trade in services, especially the effects of off-shoring. Many Western European companies settle new branches in Eastern European countries, and this process is known as «off-shoring». This is a new phenomenon discussed in the Western European press, particularly its effects on the labour market. But off-shoring does not only create unemployment in the country where branches were closed. Off-shoring can lead to adjusted wages in the off-shored-sector: after a decline of wages, they can rise again.

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High-skilled and low-skilled workers, liberalization, off-shoring, trade barriers, trade in services, wages.

This paper examines the importance of economic incentives as a determinant of foreign direct investment in transition economies. We argue that an  international public-private joint venture can be seen as an institution that makes the disincentive problem less severe in newly liberalized economies. By a publicprivate joint venture we describe a set up where a foreign firm decides on the volume of foreign investment and the host country government offers a package of start-up investment and investment sharing rules to mitigate distortions which typical arise in economies in transition and lower developed countries. The public-private joint venture may take on a variety of forms to cope with different kind of distortions and economic risk.

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Foreign direct investment, transition economies, foreign ownership, information.

This study documents the sectoral pattern of inward and outward FDI in the EU. The empirical findings show that intra EU15 FDI stocks (inward and/or outward) grew faster than Extra EU15 stocks in all industries except transport equipment from 1995-2005 indicating that FDI has become a key element of the EU integration process. EU-Industries also differ greatly in their degree of internalisation measured as the FDI inward and outward stock. Financial services, mining and quarrying, chemicals and transport equipment have the highest stock of FDI as a percentage of value added. However, FDI stocks tend to overestimate the degree of internalisation of production since FDI is much less employment intensive in financial intermediation. Foreign affiliate data for the EU15 suggest that a significant proportion of domestic production is now accounted for by foreign owned firms, in particular in transport equipment, chemicals, and electronics.  Furthermore, the ranking of FDI intensity across industries in the EU15 is rather similar in the US and in the new EU member states. Regression results suggest that industry effects are much more important than host and home country effects in determining the ratio of FDI stock as a percentage of value added across industries at the cross-section level.

Key words:
Foreign direct investments, internationalization level, sectoral pattern, gross investment volume, outward FDI, inward FDI.

Germany is Ukraine’s second most important trade partner after Russia. Ukraine features a growing market for metallurgy products, machines and textiles. Along with this positive foreign trade development, which can potentially benefit Germany and the EU countries, one should take into account the macroeconomic development, such as a high inflation rate. Our article presents some empirical data on the economic development of Ukraine and discusses economic grounds for these processes.

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economic boom, exports, external debt, external trade, foreign direct investments, imports, labour market, labour productivity, labour resources, unemployment.