What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries?

This paper examines whether the GCC exerted any trade enhancing impact on its members by employing standard augmented gravity model as well as stochastic frontier gravity model. Panel data sets are constructed over the period of 1980 to 2008 for imports and exports of the bloc's main trading pa...

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Main Authors: Al-Mawali, N., Salim, Ruhul
Other Authors: Bhanupong Nidhiprabha
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Thammasat University 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22555
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author Al-Mawali, N.
Salim, Ruhul
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Salim, Ruhul
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description This paper examines whether the GCC exerted any trade enhancing impact on its members by employing standard augmented gravity model as well as stochastic frontier gravity model. Panel data sets are constructed over the period of 1980 to 2008 for imports and exports of the bloc's main trading partners along with GCC countries. Several diagnostic tests were run to check and rectify possible problems of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation as well as cross-sectional dependence. The empirical result shows that most of the variables have desired signs and turn out to be statistically significant. Importantly, the major finding is that the trade enhancing effect of the bloc is significant.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-225552017-09-13T16:09:21Z What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries? Al-Mawali, N. Salim, Ruhul Bhanupong Nidhiprabha GCC countries Gravity model Prais-Winsten regression Trade effect Contemporaneous correlation This paper examines whether the GCC exerted any trade enhancing impact on its members by employing standard augmented gravity model as well as stochastic frontier gravity model. Panel data sets are constructed over the period of 1980 to 2008 for imports and exports of the bloc's main trading partners along with GCC countries. Several diagnostic tests were run to check and rectify possible problems of heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation as well as cross-sectional dependence. The empirical result shows that most of the variables have desired signs and turn out to be statistically significant. Importantly, the major finding is that the trade enhancing effect of the bloc is significant. 2011 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22555 10.2139/ssrn.1869380 Thammasat University restricted
spellingShingle GCC countries
Gravity model
Prais-Winsten regression
Trade effect
Contemporaneous correlation
Al-Mawali, N.
Salim, Ruhul
What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries?
title What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries?
title_full What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries?
title_fullStr What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries?
title_full_unstemmed What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries?
title_short What is the trade response of the regional grouping in the GCC Countries?
title_sort what is the trade response of the regional grouping in the gcc countries?
topic GCC countries
Gravity model
Prais-Winsten regression
Trade effect
Contemporaneous correlation
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22555