Is Morocco-EU Advanced Status Effective for Institutional Quality? A Synthetic Control Approach

Chatri Abdellatif and Essadiqi Othman
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Chatri Abdellatif: Mohammed V University
Essadiqi Othman: Mohammed V University

Journal of Economic Integration, 2026, vol. 41, issue 2, 279-299

Abstract: Morocco establish a large political and social change in the 90s and 2000s, this changes granted Morocco’s the advanced status in 2008 as the first country in the south of Mediterranean, making morocco the closest partner of the EU. The aims of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the advanced status agreement between morocco and the European Union on the quality of institutions in Morocco, we use the synthetic control approach to estimate the causal effect, our results suggest a small but not significant reduction in the corruption level of morocco over the treatment period.

Keywords: Synthetic Control; Institutional Quality; Bayesian Corruption Index; Bias Correction; Treatment Effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 F15 O43 P48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.11130/jei.2025032

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