| Is Morocco-EU Advanced Status Effective for Institutional Quality? A Synthetic Control Approach |
Abdellatif Chatri, Othman Essadiqi |
| Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco |
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Corresponding Author:
Othman Essadiqi ,Email: essadiqi.othman1@gmail.com |
| Copyright ©2026 The Journal of Economic Integration |
| ABSTRACT |
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Morocco establish a large political and social change in the 90s and 2000s, this changes granted Morocco’s the advanced status in 2008 as the first country in the south of Mediterranean, making morocco the closest partner of the EU. The aims of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the advanced status agreement between morocco and the European Union on the quality of institutions in Morocco, we use the synthetic control approach to estimate the causal effect, our results suggest a small but not significant reduction in the corruption level of morocco over the treatment period.
JEL Classification
C31: Cross Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions; Social Interaction Models
F15: Economic Integration
O43: Institutions and Growth
P48: Political Economy; Legal Institutions; Property Rights; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Regional Studies |
| Keywords:
Synthetic Control | Institutional Quality | Bayesian Corruption Index | Bias Correction | Treatment Effect
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