Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on exports: new evidence from selected European Union countries and Turkey

Orhan Cengiz () and Müge Manga ()
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Orhan Cengiz: Cukurova University
Müge Manga: Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University

Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2022, vol. 6, issue 3, No 15, 1195-1219

Abstract: Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic, a new type of coronavirus that the world faced, broke out at the end of 2019 causing numerous impacts on all countries. Particularly the European Union (EU) countries were notably affected by COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and stringency policies. Furthermore, although Turkey was successful in combating many areas of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the EU countries, its international trade was affected. This paper empirically investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on selected EU countries (Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Czechia) and Turkey’s exports with monthly panel data analyses over the March 2020–December 2021 period. The findings suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic had negative impacts on exports in the EU and Turkey. For example, a 1% increase in COVID-19 stringency reduced exports by 0.102%, and a 1% increase in total COVID-19 cases caused a decline in exports of 1.620%. Furthermore, the Dumitrescu–Hurlin panel causality test results show a two-way causality relationship between COVID-19 cases and export levels. In addition, unidirectional causality linkage exists from the COVID-19 stringency index. Therefore, causality test results confirm an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on exports during the stringency measures and lockdowns.

Keywords: COVID-19 pandemic; Exports; International trade; EU; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F11 F42 F61 F62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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