Trade asymmetries in the Mediterranean basin
Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
Journal of Economic Asymmetries
Publication Date
6-1-2018
Abstract
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The paper examines the evolution of European Union's trade asymmetries across the Mediterranean basin, by highlighting the impact of the 1995 Barcelona convention's free trade agreements. Asymmetry is gauged by measuring the speed of trade openness convergence paths between the Mediterranean North and South. The EU's Southern Mediterranean partners’ reaction to their free trade agreements is examined with a series of convergence tests, accounting for endogeneity and instrumenting with spatial geographic matrices and geopolitical dummy variables. It is revealed that following the European Union's 1995 free trade initiatives the trade asymmetry between Middle Eastern and North African countries and their Northern counterparts becomes more asymmetric, ratifying Prebisch-Singer's empirical hypothesis.
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Publisher
Elsevier B.V.
Volume
17
First Page
13
Last Page
20
Disciplines
Business
Keywords
C21, C33, Convergence, F14, Free trade agreement, JEL, Openness, Trade asymmetries
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Recommended Citation
Konstantaras, Konstantinos; Philippas, Dionisis; and Siriopoulos, Costas, "Trade asymmetries in the Mediterranean basin" (2018). All Works. 3760.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/3760
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yes
Open Access
no