PROVIDING OF INVESTMENT INCENTIVES IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Investment incentive is consider as the main measure of the governments to attract foreign direct investment. This tool is used in order to encourage the allocation of investment in the country or particular region. The providing of investment incentives has to comply with the principles of competitiveness and cannot disadvantage other market subjects. Investment incentives has to be supplementary, not the principal determinant in attraction of investment. The fundamental determinants are GDP or its growth, business environment, wages infrastructure domestic demand and location. However, the similarity in these determinants heighten the importance of the aid that might be provided for investors. Properly set of investment incentives providing might enhance the performance of the economy by the support of the less developed regions. Paper brings the analysis of investment incentives in the Slovak Republic on the regional level concerning various variables such as the volume of incentive per one created job.