INSTITUTIONAL MAINTENANCE OF THE INVESTMENT ACTIVITY IN THE CARPATHIAN REGION

Abstract

The paper examines the institutional maintenance of the investment activity in four border oblasts of the Carpathian Region. The accesibility and availability of information for investors on the websites of Livska, Zakarpatska, Ivano-Frankivska, and Chernivetska State Public Administrations are analyzed. Based on the foreign experience of attracting investment to the regions, the paper suggests creating an Investment Attraction Agency for the Carpathian Region with representative divisions in each oblast that would operate as "single windows" and provide maintenance for the investors. The article dwells on the issue of foreign investment attraction to regions. The importance of foreign investment in regions’ economy and the country in general is emphasized, the factors, which are decisive for investors in the analysis of region’s attractiveness, and factors that influence the level of to regions are examined, the mechanisms of foreign direct investment attraction are analyzed through the prism of cross-border cooperation forms