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Impact of Institutional Quality Determinants on Innovation in the Arab Countries: Empirical Study

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The aim of this study is to test the effect of the institutional quality determinants: (voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, control of corruption) on the innovation in the Arab countries during the period from 2011 to 2019. To doing so, this paper uses the data of 11 Arab countries through estimation and comparison between the Panel Data models: pooled regression model, fixed effects model, and the random effects model. The results show that the random effects model is appropriate, and regulatory quality and control of corruption negatively affecte the Innovation, the result also found that innovation is not affected by voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness and rule of law. Keywords: institutional quality; innovation; Panel data model. JEL Classification: O43 ;O31 ; C23
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2022
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Impact of Institutional Quality Determinants on Innovation in the
Arab Countries: Empirical Study
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Abstract :
The aim of this study is to test the effect
of the institutional quality determinants:
(voice and accountability, political
stability and absence of violence,
government effectiveness, regulatory
quality, rule of law, control of corruption)
on the innovation in the Arab countries
during the period from 2011 to 2019. To
doing so, this paper uses the data of 11
Arab countries through estimation and
comparison between the Panel Data
models: pooled regression model, fixed
effects model, and the random effects
model. The results show that the random
effects model is appropriate, and
regulatory quality and control of
corruption negatively affecte the
Innovation, the result also found that
innovation is not affected by voice and
accountability, political stability and
absence of violence, government
effectiveness and rule of law.
Keywords: institutional quality
innovation; Panel data model.
JEL Classification: O43 ;O31 ; C23
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2005)(Cameron, 1996)      (barasa,
knoben, & vermeulen, 2017)(Segerstrom, 1991)(Ulku, 2004) 
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Kikula, 2016, p. 7)
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


 

            
(Chong & calderon, 2000, p. 80)
   
           
 
      
(Tebaldi & Elmslie, 2013,
p. 887)Knack Keefer 1995
 (Ali & CRAIN, 2001, p.
424) 
 (Tebaldi & Elmslie, 2013, p.
887)(Baris, 2019, p. 167)



      
           

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


         
(Hussen & Çokgezen,
2021, p. 25)      
   


. 


 (huang & xu, 1999, p.
438)
        

(Tebaldi & Elmslie, 2013, p. 887)(Baris, 2019, p. 167)








   

 
 


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


         
          
         
.
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
   

           
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".(OECD, 2009, p. 11)

    
         
 

2015, p. 649) (Bubel, Ostraszewska, & Turek,


  




North (Institutions )       

(Faundez, 2016, p. 390)
Greif         

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          

        
    
          

(Alonso & Garcimartín, 2013, pp. 207-
208)Kauffman     
          
        (kaufmann, kraay,
& mastruzzi, 2011, p. 3)
  
       :
:  

        

       
    
    
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


  

          


 :         
       


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   
   

AlonsoGarcimartín
    
 
(Alonso & Garcimartín, 2013, p. 208)Bakwena


 (Bakwena, Bodman, & Le, 2009, p. 21)   



(Vuong & napier, 2014, p. 654) Li



(Li, Naqvi, &
Caglar, 2020)Birku Reta
            

(Entele, 2021, p. 8)






  
         



            

     
   (Wang, qiao, &
ahmed, 2021, p. 2).


          

 (abdelkader, 2021, p. 191)
  
           
           

           
           Anokhin
Schulze)(  

(Anokhin & Schulze, 2009, p. 474)

         
 (Hussen & Çokgezen,
2021, p. 17)   


         
(Oluwatobi, Efobi, & Olurinola, 2015, p. 408)


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

(Jiao, Koo, & Cui,
2015, p. 9)

      


 (barasa, knoben, & vermeulen, 2017, p. 282)   
(Wang, qiao, & ahmed, 2021, p. 6) (Nguyen & Jaramillo, 2014, p. 13)
  Çokgezen Husse  
  
         
(Hussen & Çokgezen, 2021, p. 17)
NguyenJaramillo
(Nguyen & Jaramillo, 2014, p. 13)
 

           
JiaoKooCui



(Jiao, Koo, & Cui, 2015, p. 9)OluwatobiEfobi
Olurinola
 (Oluwatobi, Efobi, & Olurinola, 2015, p. 408)

  


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(Oluwatobi, Efobi, & Olurinola, 2015, p.
391)

 
 
(Oluwatobi, Efobi, & Olurinola, 2015, p. 408)



Hussen Çokgezen
            


WBES
          




 (Hussen
& Çokgezen, 2021)
Baris  
        
 


        
           
            

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     
  

(Baris, 2019)
  JiaoKooCui 
           



   
         
(Jiao, Koo, & Cui, 2015)
   Oluwatob,EfobiOlurinola   



    
       
         
      
(Oluwatobi, Efobi, &
Olurinola, 2015)




   




(barasa, knoben, & vermeulen, 2017)



(Ayyagari, Demirgüç-Kunt, & Maksimovic, 2016)(Chadee & Roxas, 2013)
 (Baris, 2019)(Tebaldi & Elmslie, 2013)

          





        
Kauffman    (kaufmann, kraay, & mastruzzi, 2011, p. 3)
(worldbank, 2021)
(Hussen & Çokgezen, 2021)
(Baris, 2019)(Oluwatobi, Efobi, & Olurinola, 2015)
   
    
 

         Panel Data


Minimum
Maximum
Mean
Std. Deviation
Name
Variable
8
3651
938.75
889.018

Patent
-1.9072
.3046
-1.090793
0.5330590

VOAC
-2.9933
1.2236
-0.803166
1.0490896

PSNV
-2.2794
1.5096
-0.159650
0.8805631

GOVE
-1.6738
1.1111
-0.264825
0.7940056

REGQ
-1.7899
.9585
-0.166057
0.7279389

ROL
-1.6815
1.2808
-0.182315
0.8068386

COC
Eviews.9

239


F-Test
   LM    Breush and Pagan
        
Hausman Test
Panel Data Models
         

  
  
  
  

 








  i
t
   
   
 
  





(Patent)
2019T=09N=11 *


PRM

FEM

REM










Constante
507.8561
0.0777
614.8813
0.1813
554.4642
0.3028
VOAC
-365.2319
0.0406
-146.5126
0.7119
-127.0907
0.7065
PSNV
25.87511
0.9195
-414.1832
0.1012
-447.1909
0.0571
GOVE
849.3268
0.1139
151.5754
0.7397
268.9117
0.5329
REGQ
-792.7631
0.0423
-721.3613
0.0488
-787.6938
0.0244
ROL
-130.4307
0.7988
716.7182
0.1578
554.8200
0.2332
COC
234.3517
0.6960
1187.097
0.0108
1025.982
0.0119
R-squared
0.161850
0.834093
0.170440
Adjusted R-
squared
0.107188
0.801721
0.116338
Prob (F-statistic
0.010920
0.000000
0.007442
Eviews.9



       

RedundantFixed Effects Tests)
 
Lagrange Multiplier
Tests for Random Effects  
Hausman Test

241


Redundant Fixed Effects Tests
Eviews 9.0
Cross-section F
         H0 

 H1



Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Random Effects
Eviews 9.0



         Lagrange
multiplier   (Breusch-Pagan , Honda ,King-Wu, Standardized
Honda ,StandardizedHonda Standardized King-Wu, Gourierioux, et al.)
     H0    

H1
         


Hausman Test
Eviews 9.0
    Hausman Test  
H0



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
c0.0777


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    REGQ 0.0244   
    
Patent
COC0.0119

(Patent)
    (VOAC) 
(PSNV)(GOVE)
(ROL)0.7065
0.05710.53290.2332     

   
     

0.007442

 




 (Xia, Tan, & Bai, 2018)  

           
 
(Jiang & tan, 2019)
         
 
Barasa   
 
(Barasa, 2018, p. 817)(Veracierto, 2008)

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       


(Panel Data Models)
  
           




 
       

 
         

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
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               
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