“一带一路”背景下制度距离对我国向西亚北非出口贸易影响研究

Abstract:TheWest Asia and North Africa（WANA）countries are important partners of China’s “the Belt and Road” initiative. The economic development level and institutional environment of the countries in the region are very different，and there are great differences in economic system and political system between WANA and China. This paper calculates the political institutional distance and economic institutional distance between China and the WANA’s 24 countries based on the data related to the Global Governance Index and the Economic Freedom Index，and makes an empirical analysis of the impact of bilateral institutional distance on China’s export trade and its export trade potential to the region through Gravity Model by using the data of China’s export trade to the region from 2007 to 2016. The results find that there is a threshold to make the bilateral institutional distance have a negative effect on China’s export trade to the region. In addition，we know that China still has great potential for export trade to some countries in the region through the measurement of trade potential. More discusses and some suggestions on how to reduce bilateral institutional differences are put toward the end.

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