GEP Research Paper 03/34
Estimating the export and import demand for manufactured goods: The role of FDI
Mariam Camarero and Cecilio Tamarit
Abstract
In this paper we estimate the demand for exports and imports of manufactured goods for a panel containing the majority of the EU countries as well as the US and Japan. The model includes as explanatory factors both the traditional determinants of trade and also the stock of foreign direct investment (FDI). We apply panel unit root and cointegration tests allowing for heterogeneity. Whereas there is no evidence of cointegration when using just the traditional formulation, the results are favorable to the existence of long-run relationships linking the variables of the augmented model. Moreover, the results point mainly to a complementary relationship between trade and FDI.
Issued in September 2003.
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