Do Politics and Culture Affect Middle East Trade? Evidence from the Gravity Model

Mehanna Dr Rock-Antoine
Additional contact information
Mehanna Dr Rock-Antoine: Lebanese Amercican University

Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2003, vol. 1, issue 2, 57-72

Abstract: This paper estimates the effects of politics and culture on Middle East trade by applying an augmented version of the gravity model. The econometric specification of the model accounts for oil-exporting countries, regional trade blocs and other pertinent exogenous factors. The model endogenously accounts for potential selection-bias between Arab and Islamic countries. Unlike past and contemporary work, this paper employs a Middle Eastern framework by incorporating politics, corruption and culture. The levels of corruption and political freedom represent politics, while language affiliation and religion capture some aspects of culture.

Keywords: culture; politics; international trade; Middle East; econometric analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2202/1475-3693.1009 (text/html)
For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:rmeecf:v:1:y:2003:i:2:n:4

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/rmeef/html

DOI: 10.2202/1475-3693.1009

Access Statistics for this article

Review of Middle East Economics and Finance is currently edited by Ghassan Dibeh

More articles in Review of Middle East Economics and Finance from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().