The Study of Dynamic Relationships between Flow of Foreign Direct Investment and the Pattern of Comparative Advantage in the Polish Economy

Abstract

The paper presents the dynamic relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) in Poland and the values of revealed comparative advantage indexes of goods with different share of the production factors. For this purpose, the vector error correction model (VECM) was used. To investigate the feedback between the variables there are analyzed the results of the impulse response functions and forecast error variance decomposition.The results provide a benchmark for the verification of the theory of dynamic comparative advantages (Ozawa, 1992), which is an important cell in a long-term relationship between FDI and competitiveness of the economy. One of the main conclusions of the article is to determine the simultaneous occurrence of symptoms typical for the different phases of economic development in the Ozawa model. For the calculations were used data from the Central Statistical Office covering the period from the first quarter of 2002 to the fourth quarter of 2012.