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Impacts of the Arab Spring on trade in airline services |
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| Authors: | Kenneth Button Gianmaria Martini Davide Scotti |
| Affiliation: | 1. School of Public Policy, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA;2. Department of Management, Information, and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy;3. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy |
| Abstract: | This article examines the impacts of the ‘Arab Spring’ on trade in air services between the various North African and Levant countries involved. Studies of the implications of these socio-economic changes on trade in the region are made difficult because of a paucity of good economic data and the involvement of outside countries in the trade that now takes place. The number of international airline seats available provides a partial and fairly reliable variable to examine trade patterns. The analysis looks at changes in patterns of trade in these services between 1997 and 2013. |
| Keywords: | Arab Spring airlines international trade political instability |