Why can’t MENA countries trade more?: The curse of bad institutions

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dc.creatorKaram, Fida
dc.creatorZaki, Chahir
dc.date2017
dc.date2024-06-21T09:25:17Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:25:17Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:06:36Z
dc.descriptionThis paper explores the relationship between institutions and trade in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The literature offers a broad consensus that bad institutions hamper trade and that trade liberalization engenders institutional reforms; however, MENA has generally been neglected in this literature, even though most countries in the region suffer from a clear deficit of “good” institutions. Taking into account the inverse relationship between institutions and trade, we use a gravity model that explains bilateral trade for disaggregated goods and service sectors for 21 MENA countries over the period 1995-2014. Our results show that in the presence of excessive zero trade observations, poor institutions can be considered as fixed export costs that help explain the zero probability of trade for some countries. We find that institutions do matter for trade after controlling for the endogeneity problem between institutions and trade.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148637
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/94813
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.sourceKaram, Fida; and Zaki, Chahir. 2017. Why can’t MENA countries trade more? The curse of bad institutions. AGRODEP Working Paper 0037. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148637
dc.subjectexports
dc.subjectinstitutions
dc.subjecttrade policies
dc.subjecttrade
dc.subjectgovernance
dc.titleWhy can’t MENA countries trade more?: The curse of bad institutions
dc.typeWorking Paper

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