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The impact of free trade agreements on Middle East and North Africa exports of intermediate and final goods

  • This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between final and intermediate goods for a global sample of trade partners. Data on exports from four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) to 61 destinations over the period 1995–2016 are used to estimate a structural gravity model applying a Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimator. Moreover, the paper estimates the effect of the progressive adoption of the Pan‐European‐Mediterranean RoO. Results show that FTAs have been overall successful in increasing MENA exports. This is particularly true for FTAs that eliminate protection on agricultural products. In contrast to the existing literature, we find that the agreements concluded with European countries raise MENA exports, whereas no significant impact is found for the application of the Pan‐European RoO.

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Author:Adriana R. Cardozo SilvaORCiDGND, Inmaculada Martínez‐ZarzosoORCiD, Paula L. Vogler
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-35700
DOI:https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-3570
DOI original:https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.13214
ISSN:0378-5920
Parent Title (English):The World Economy
Publisher:Wiley
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2021
Publishing Institution:Hochschule Hannover
Release Date:2025/03/27
Tag:Middle East and North Africa; Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood; free trade agreement; gravity model; panel data
GND Keyword:FreihandelsabkommenGND; ExportGND; Mittlerer OstenGND; NordafrikaGND; Pseudo-Maximum-Likelihood-SchätzungGND; AgrarexportGND
Volume:45
Issue:5
Page Number:27
First Page:1501
Last Page:1527
Institutes:Fakultät IV - Wirtschaft und Informatik
DDC classes:380 Handel, Kommunikation, Verkehr
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International