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Institutions and bilateral trade in Africa: an application of Poisson’s estimation with high-dimensional fixed effects to structural gravity model

Abdulkareem Alhassana Department of Economics, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus;b Department of Economics, Federal University Lafia, Lafia, NigeriaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6152-7728
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Cem Payaslioglua Department of Economics, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North CyprusCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1357-1361 | Published online: 28 Oct 2019

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