Abstract
There are many benefits of foreign direct investment to the host countries. Especially foreign
direct investment provides developing countries with the necessary capital accumulation,
knowledge and managerial skills, technological infrastructure and usage competencies required
for production. In addition to these benefits, foreign direct investment is expected to contribute
positively to the export product basket of host countries. However, as a result of the literature
review, it is observed that there are not enough studies examining the effects of foreign direct
investments on the export product diversification of host countries. Therefore, the effect of
foreign direct investments of export product diversification was examined by using Vector
Autoregressive (VAR) method in a case study for Turkey. The results of the empirical analysis
showed that foreign direct investment does not affect export product diversification. According
to the results of variance decomposition analysis, it was determined that trade openness
contributed significantly to export product diversification.