ANALISIS FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT NEGARA-NEGARA PENDIRI APEC

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is one of the important sources of capital for a country in addition to revenue from the tax sector. The contribution of FDI is quite large in funding development that occurs in asset transfer, technology transfer and management transfer. In reducing trade and investment barriers, then between countries forming regional integration, one of which is APEC where in 2014 half of the world's FDI went to this organization. This study explains the influence of GDP, trade openness, labor force and infrastructure on foreign direct investment of the 12 APEC founding countries, namely Australia, New Zealand, Canada, United States of America, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines. , Japan, and South Korea. The research method used in this study is multiple linear regression analysis with panel data from 12 countries in the 2009-2018 period. The best model used is the fixed effect model (FEM). The results of the study with eviews 9 show that all variables simultaneously have a significant effect on foreign direct investment in the founding countries of APEC. Partially, the GDP variable has a significant positive effect, the trade openness variable has a significant but negative direction, while the labor force and infrastructure variables have no significant effect on foreign direct investment in the founding countries of APE