(1)

(2)

(3)

Total

exports

Agriculture

Trade

Industrial

Trade

Bilateral Distance

−1.866***

−1.327***

−1.900***

(0.0372)

(0.0419)

(0.0436)

Intern Distance

−3.944***

−2.611***

−3.840***

(0.0605)

(0.0685)

(0.0710)

Political Stability destination

−0.382**

−0.528**

−0.168

(0.190)

(0.230)

(0.228)

Control of corruption destination

−1.581***

−0.448

−1.972***

(0.302)

(0.339)

(0.357)

Rules of Law destination

2.005***

1.352***

1.943***

(0.247)

(0.328)

(0.325)

Common Border

1.302***

2.715***

1.695***

(0.0524)

(0.0764)

(0.0637)

Common official language

0.464***

0.156***

0.673***

(0.0426)

(0.0516)

(0.0533)

Common colonizer

0.537***

0.609***

0.537***

(0.0480)

(0.0590)

(0.0584)

Common religion

0.823***

1.088***

0.404***

(0.0807)

(0.0902)

(0.0944)

Landlocked destination

−1.088***

−0.539*

−0.571*

(0.245)

(0.307)

(0.304)

Common currency

0.265***

0.863***

0.245***

(0.0554)

(0.0766)

(0.0659)

SADC

0.793***

0.830***

0.630***

(0.0782)

(0.0927)

(0.0897)

CEDEAO

−0.0935

1.415***

−0.509***

(0.0664)

(0.0792)

(0.0811)

COMESA

1.279***

1.655***

0.638***

(0.0614)

(0.0982)

(0.0869)

ECCAS

−0.333***

0.0111

−0.895***

(0.107)

(0.112)

(0.125)

UMA

0.662***

−1.790***

1.729***

(0.156)

(0.229)

(0.195)

Exporter fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Importer fixed effects

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

27,200

27,200

27,200

R-squared

0.932

0.772

0.890