This paper estimates the determinants of bilateral trade flows between UEMOA members and other countries in the ECOWAS region. It also estimates the trade effects of UEMOA using a more simplified Vinerian type gravity model. Further, country-specific analysis was conducted to evaluate any...

This paper estimates the trade effects of WAMZ between 2005 and 2010 using the gravity model. In addition, it also estimates the determinants of bilateral trade flows in WAMZ countries. The paper finds that WAMZ has been trade diverting although country specific analysis reveals that individual...

In this paper, we extend the work of Hamori (2008) to include three main innovations: (i) we consider an open economy version of money demand which is more representative for small open economies like those in SSA; (ii) we consider both the homogenous and heterogeneous panel cointegration methods...