Evaluating relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth: Turkey example

In this study, on existence of a potential relationship between GNP, which is main indication of growth, and FDI was examined for the period of 1970-2007 yearly for Turkish economy. The mentioned relationship was investigated using E-vievs 5.0, Rats and SPSS package programs, stationarity test, Johansen-Juselius ko-entegration test, VAR causality test and varience decomposition were used. As a resut, VAR casuality test, varience decomposition showed that there exist a uni-directional causality relation running from FDI to GNP.