أثر الاستثمار الأجنبي المباشر على تدفقات التجارة العربية البينية باستعمال نموذج الجاذبية الموسع

Abstract EN

This study aims to make contributions to the development of foreign direct investment in Arab countries and make it a tool to revive intra-Arab trade.

This focuses on the relationship between foreign direct investment flows and intra-Arab trade flows.

An expanded model of gravity relied on the impact of FDI on Arab intra-Arab trade flows and analysis during 1995-2017 on some Arab countries where statistics and the use of panel data were available.

The results concluded that there was a negative and significant effect of the distance between the two countries on the flows of foreign trade, and a positive and significant impact of inflation, which is the opposite of what was expected, there is also a positive and significant impact of the GDP of the exporting country, a negative impact of the GDP of the importing country but not significant, a non-significant positive effect of FDI flows in exporting countries, and a negative non-significant impact of FDI flows in the importing countries.