This paper examines whether the GCC exerted any trade enhancing impact on its members by employing a standard augmented gravity model. Unbalanced panel data sets are constructed over the period of 1980 to 2008 for imports and exports of the bloc’s main trading partners along with GCC...

This paper examines whether the GCC exerted any trade enhancing impact on its members by employing a standard augmented gravity model. Panel data sets are constructed over the period of 1980 to 2008 for imports and exports of the bloc's main trading partners along with GCC countries. Several...