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DEVELOPING ECONOMIES
Volume 59, Issue 3, Pages 275-305Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/deve.12267
Keywords
Growth regressions; Spillover effects; Spatial econometrics; MENA countries
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The study revealed that economic growth in the MENA region is positively influenced by geographically close countries and those with similar institutional characteristics. Trade linkages have a smaller impact on economic growth.
We examine the role of spatial spillovers in economic growth for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We explicitly model spatial interactions that may arise from geography, bilateral trade, or institutional similarities, and ask how much they are likely to matter for growth externalities and spillover effects. We find that the economic growth of a MENA country is positively affected by the economic growth of countries that are geographically close and that have similar institutional characteristics. The spillover effects of growth are due to economic activities in countries that trade primarily in oil, which accounts for the gap in spillover effects due to institutional similarity between resource-rich and resource-poor countries in the MENA region. However, trade linkages matter less. Where they do have an effect, it is through the local range effects of a spatially lagged explanatory variable capturing the effects of the trade balance on growth.
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