Determinants of imports between Algeria and the AMU member countries: a gravity model approach

Abstract EN

This study aims to identify and analyze the most important variables that explain national imports with the countries of the Arab Maghreb.

Algerian towards the countries of the Maghreb and the most important variables explaining the intra-regional trade between this regional bloc using the random effects model.

The moral determinants explaining the Algerian imports towards the countries of the Arab Maghreb Union were reached, where each of the market size represented by the number of population and the GDP of the member states had a positive impact on the increase in the volume of Algerian imports towards the Arab Maghreb countries during the study period.

The study also found that the distance also had a positive effect on The volume of Algerian imports, which explains the increase in Algerian exchanges with geographically distant countries.