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Multilateral trade agreements in Africa

机译:非洲多边贸易协定

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This paper explores the motives behind the formation of intra-African regional integration agreements (RIAs). We focus specifically on rents because they can explain the drive for integration even in the absence of a positive effect on welfare. Whether they are meant to foster rent-seeking or to suppress it, the level of corruption is posited to have a positive effect on the willingness to enter into RIAs. However, empirical studies into this effect have come to contradictory conclusions. We find that corruption has a positive effect on the willingness of African countries to join trade agreements. This result remains significant when controlling for endogeneity and heteroskedasticity, as well as the indicator of corruption used. While small, the effect of corruption outperforms most economic variables. Nevertheless, distance and other geographical factors remain the strongest explanatory forces of African integration.
机译:本文探讨了非洲内部区域一体化协议(RIA)形成背后的动机。我们特别关注租金,因为即使在没有对福利产生积极影响的情况下,租金也可以解释一体化的动力。无论是要促进寻租还是要抑制寻租,腐败的程度都会对加入RIA的意愿产生积极影响。但是,对这种影响的实证研究得出了相互矛盾的结论。我们发现,腐败对非洲国家加入贸易协定的意愿产生积极影响。当控制内生性和异方差性以及所使用的腐败指标时,此结果仍然很重要。尽管腐败的影响很小,但其表现却胜过大多数经济变量。然而,距离和其他地理因素仍然是非洲一体化的最有力的解释力量。

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