TY  - JOUR
T1  - Trade, Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) and Integration:
Empirical Evidence from Islamic Republic of Iran
AU - Rafat, Batol 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 27
SP  - 6536
EP  - 6539
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.6536.6539
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6536.6539
KW  - Foreign direct investment
KW  -trade flows
KW  -economic integration
KW  -economic
KW  -similarity
KW  -(ECO)
AB  - Regional economic integration is a phenomenon that gradually led to the formation of a global
economic environment. Today, many developing countries have entered a new regional integration agreement
with developed countries and other countries, in other words, opened their markets to foreign direct investment.
this study examines the interaction between trade integration and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Iran. We
consider Iran trade integration with selected groups of countries, including EU Member, the Union of
South-East Asia (ASEAN), Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) and D8 Organization. estimated results
indicated that the trade flows and foreign direct investment has a direct and significant relationship to each
other so, increasing trade flows resulted in an increase in foreign direct investment.
ER  -