Determinants of China foreign direct investment in Latin America

• Autores: Ávila-López, Luis Alfredo, Galván-León, Jorge Alfonso, Zayas-Márquez, Carolina
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.csi.unmsm:article/18436
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/quipu/article/view/18436
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: China; determinants; flow; investment; Latin America; determinantes; flujo; inversión; Latinoamérica

Objective: Analyze the flow of foreign direct investment of the People's Republic of China from 2008 to 2017 in 7 Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. Method: The research is quantitative, non-experimental, longitudinal panel, descriptive and explanatory scope. Seven variables were analyzed: gross domestic product, trade balance, inflation, distance from Beijing to the capital of the Latin American country and natural resources, from 2008 to 2017. Results: Research results show that the only variable that currently attracts Chinese investment to Latin America is the size of the economy. Conclusions: The variable that seems to determine the investment in this region it lead based on the size of the economy, which was represented in this analysis with the GDP.