Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/971 
Year of Publication: 
1997
Citation: 
[Publisher:] Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) [Place:] Kiel [Year:] 1997
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 828
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
Pending EU widening to the East has revived concerns in Lalin America that Europe may become more inward-looking. However, booming trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) relations between current EU members and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) are unlikely to harm Itin America. Trade patterns suggest that Latin America's exports to the EU are complementary to the exports of CEECs. Moreover, the recent surge of FDI flows to various host countries, including several Latin American economies, indicates that new investment opportunities in CEECs induce additional FDI, rather than causing diversion of FDI. This picture is unlikely to change significantly once some CEECs become members of the EU. The paper concludes that future economic relations between Latin America and the EU depend primarily on sustained economic policy reforms in Latin America and the EU's role in multilateral trade negotiations, rather than on EU widening per se.
JEL: 
F15
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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