UDC 339.92 DOI 10.33111/iep.2019.31.06_eng Organizational and Institutional Directions of Strengthening of Ukraine's Position in International Investment Markets OLENA LIUTAK, OLENA BAULA 1 ABSTRACT. The article describes the main aspects of investment environment of the country and organizational and institutional directions of Ukraine's position in international investment activity optimization. Modern investment flows of Ukraine are analyzed from the point of view of institutional support and geography. The description of modern processes of share capital and debt securities movement in current circumstances is outlined, with determination of preconditions and consequences of further integration of our country into global investment flows. It is proven that the volumes of share capital of non-residents and foreign direct investment are increasing. This proves the stabilization of macroeconomic indicators and foreign interest in receiving income from our country’s economic potential, in particular, the volumes of investment in domestic government bonds. There was formed the economic and mathematical model of the impact of investment on the development of our country's economic strength and GDP growth. The priority to involve all organizational and institutional directions of Ukraine's positions optimization in international investment activity in order to increase the incoming investment flows of modern transformations of the global investment process is argued. Ukraine’s position in the international ratings, reflecting the institutional effectiveness of the domestic policy of foreign investments attraction in the sphere of business activity is analysed. The systematic view of foreign investment barriers in Ukraine, based on results of foreign investors survey by the European Business Association, Dragon Capital and the Center for Economic Strategies is set out. It has been determined that the main ways for increasing the institutional effectiveness of investment policy in Ukraine in the context of globalization and internationalization of the world economy should be real, but not declarative improvement of the investment environment, reduction of bureaucracy for investors, simplification of regulatory and registration requirements and the adoption of significant steps of investors’ rights revealing protection. The characteristic of modern processes regarding the distribution of dividend payment practice and the legislatively held responsibility of issuer for received funds from investors who are able to launch the mechanism of stock market instruments use, turning the personal savings into investments, and spreading fair competition among investors is given. The objectives and measures of the organizational and institutional mechanism of effectiveness improvement of the domestic policy of foreign investments attraction in business activities are substantiated, the necessity of fundamental reforms in the direction of the improvement of the country’s innovation and investment development, the “reform pyramid” and the mechanism of its realization are outlined. * This article was translated from its original in Ukrainian. 1 Liutak Olena Mykolayivna — Doctor of Economics, Professor, Professor at the Department of International Economic Relations, Lutsk National Technical University. Sphere of scientific interests: global institutionalization of services, international tourism, regulation of the development of world markets for food and non-food products; innovation-investment potential, regional policy of cross-border cooperation, tourist-recreational potential of the cross-border region. E-mail: olenalutak@gmail.com. Baula Olena Viktorivna — Ph.D. (Economics), Associate Professor, Associate Professor at the Department of International Economic Relations, Lutsk National Technical University. Sphere of scientific interests: international investment activity, international economic integration, globalization of economic development, globalization of financial markets. E-mail: o.baula@lntu.edu.ua. IEP, № 31, (2019) pp. 146–166 © Olena Liutak, Olena Baula, 2019 «All rights reserved» ISSN 1811-9832/2019/№ 2 (31)