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    Foreign direct investment in Turkey: determinants, problems, tax and legal changes
    (İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2009) Ekinci, Erdal; Süerdem, Ahmet
    This thesis offers an empirical study of the motives for the selection ofTurkey as a location for foreign direct investment (FDI). In addition to thedeterminants of selecting Turkey as a location for investment, the thesis alsoanalyzes the issues that affect the investment environment and the reception by thecurrent investors of the recently introduced tax and legal changes intended toenhance Turkey’s attractiveness for FDI. For this purpose, following an extensiveliterature review on the subject matter and a series of interviews with variousexecutives, a questionnaire is prepared and is pre-tested. Then, the questionnaire isapplied to the executives of 73 corporations established in Turkey with foreigncapital.In the study, first the factors that lead to the selection of Turkey as thelocation for investment are identified. Then, the main problems that affect the FDIenvironment in Turkey are determined, and the impact of these problems on the FDIenvironment and the operations of the firms are measured. Third, the studyinvestigates the progress achieved in the solution of these problems as compared tothe dates on which these investments were initiated, and the probability of solutionsto the identified problems in the next five-year period. Finally, the impact of the taxand legal changes introduced in the last five years on FDI environment and businessplans of firms is analyzed.In the study, the hypotheses which examine the relationship between thedeterminants, problems, tax and legal changes and investment date, industry, capital size, sales volume, employee size, mode of entry, ownership pattern, country oforigin of foreign equity are tested through t tests and variation analysis, and thefindings are discussed.