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Role of Institutional Quality Effectiveness in the Relationship Between Financial Development and Economic Complexity: Empirical Evidence from MENA Countries

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  • Seyed Hosein Izadi

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran)

  • Mohammad mehdi zare shahne

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran)

  • Ebrahim Bahraminia

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran)

  • Samaneh Norani Azad

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran)

Abstract

Understanding the determinants of economic complexity is particularly important for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which face significant challenges in keeping pace with rapid developments in the global economy. Although many researchers identify financial development as an influential factor on economic complexity, financial development alone may not be sufficient to achieve an extensive network of economic complexity without a dynamic institutional framework. Accordingly, this study aims to examine the impact of financial development on economic complexity, considering the role of institutional quality, in selected MENA countries over the period 2005–2021 using the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Squares (FMOLS) method. The results indicate that per capita GDP and institutional quality have a positive and significant impact on economic complexity. In contrast, the effect of the financial development index on economic complexity is negative and insignificant. However, the coefficient of the interaction term between financial development and institutional quality is positive and significant, suggesting that financial development can enhance economic complexity only within an efficient institutional framework. Additionally, the results show that research and development expenditures have a positive and significant effect on economic complexity.

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  • Seyed Hosein Izadi & Mohammad mehdi zare shahne & Ebrahim Bahraminia & Samaneh Norani Azad, 2025. "Role of Institutional Quality Effectiveness in the Relationship Between Financial Development and Economic Complexity: Empirical Evidence from MENA Countries," Quarterly Journal of Applied Theories of Economics, Faculty of Economics, Management and Business, University of Tabriz, vol. 12(3), pages 81-102.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:qjatoe:023026
    DOI: 10.22034/ecoj.2025.62366.3327
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    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • E02 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

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