Measuring the Impact of Trademark Protection in Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to Algeria During the Period 1995-2018

Abstract

This study aimed to test the empirical relationship between trademark protection and attracting foreign direct investment to Algeria in the short and long term. The empirical results included the period 1995-2018. Therefore, the ARDL was relied on the autoregressive model of the distributed time gaps. The experimental results indicated that there is a relationship. A long-term and short-term equilibrium between the study variables, as the increase in trademark protection leads to an increase in the attractiveness of foreign direct investment in the long and short term.