in individual Mercosur countries was closely related to reform efforts on the national level.The pattern of EU FDI in the … subregion reveals some significant changes, notably in terms of its major sources and its sectoral composition. Furthermore, EU … investors pursued strategies that differed from those of other foreign investors. Yet, the character of EU FDI has essentially …

of Asian suppliers and hosts as a result of EU integration deepening and widening in the nineties. Based on recent …), trade resistance factors on the EU import side can be explained mainly by slow growth in Europe in the first half of the … of the Europe Agreements. As trade overlaps between Asian and CEE supply on EU markets are low, the trade diversion fear …

The Eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) is likely to give a further boost to trade and capital flows, yet … determinants of international asset holdings and trade flows. We find in most regressions that EU membership has a significant … effect. Based on additional simulations of the expected flows to ten transition economies, we conclude that for the EU …