FACTORS AFFECTING TURKEY’S FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE EXPORTS: A GRAVITY MODEL ANALYSIS
Öz
The paper examines the determinants that impact on Turkey’s fresh fruit and vegetable export with the help of gravity model analysis. An annual time series data covering the period of (2007-2018) was used for 10 countries, which are the main fresh fruit and vegetables importing countries from Turkey. In model estimation, GMM EGLS estimator was employed instead of classical estimators. According to the empirical results, Turkey's fruit and vegetable exports are positively affected by the importing countries’ economic size while negatively affected by the distance between Turkey and these countries, due to difficulties in transportation conditions -arising from the durability of fruits and vegetables-, changes in nutritional habits, increasing costs disadvantage in competition, etc. The study also concluded that being a member state of the EU, negatively affects the exports of fruits and vegetables, while having more than 4% Muslim population in the importing country’s total population is positively affected the exports of fruits and vegetables. This result may indicate that the understanding of halal food has increased in the world. Besides, due to the high competition in EU countries, Turkey’s exports to these countries are also negatively affected
Anahtar Kelimeler
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Export, Turkish Economy, International Economic Policy, Gravity Model, International Trade
Teşekkür
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