terminants of European Investments in Latin America.

1 This study addresses the topic of the determinants of EU FDI in Latin Amer-ica, especially in MERCOSUR countries, having care to disentangle the role of the integration agreement from other national policies inspired from the general sub-continental reform effort occurred in the last decades. The results obtained from the analysis suggest a strong role both for the pol-icy frame of structural reforms and, especially, the MERCOSUR agreement in determining FDI inflows into the Latin American region.