Spillovers from Europe into Morocco and Tunisia
International Monetary Fund
Download Document| Date Published | 2010 |
| Version | IMF Working Paper |
| Primary Author | Reinout De Bock, Daniel Florea, and Joël Toujas-Bernaté |
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| Country | Morocco |
Abstract
This paper examines the economic and financial linkages between Morocco and Tunisia and their European partners. Using structural vector autoregressions, we find that growth shocks in European partner countries generate significant responses on growth in Morocco and Tunisia. For Tunisia, exports and, to a much lesser extent, tourism appear to be the major transmission channels. In Morocco, exports, remittances and tourism play relatively equal roles. An analysis with sectoral data supports these results.