TY  - JOUR
TI  - EXPORT SOPHISTICATION AND ITS IMPACT ON GROWTH: CASE STUDY FOR MENA COUNTRIES
AB  - This study initially calculates export sophistication of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries to make a comparison in the region and in between OPEC and non-OPEC countries for 2004-2016 period. Secondly, short and long run empirical analysis are applied to examine the effect of export sophistication on GDP per capita growth controlling for several macroeconomic variables. Lastly, panel VAR is utilized to decompose the variation in growth rate. Empirical findings suggest positive effect of sophistication on growth rate controlling for oil prices and OPEC membership and export sophistication is observed to be the key variable to explain the variation in growth rate out of several candidate variables.
AU  - Deniz, Pınar
AU  - Aslanoglu, Erhan
AU  - ERDOGAN, ORAL
DO  - 10.14780/muiibd.1052078
PY  - 2021
JO  - Marmara Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Dergisi
VL  - 43
IS  - 2
SN  - 2149-1844
SP  - 285
EP  - 301
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/483448
ER  -