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Research

“Financial Risk Management in the Anthropocene era”, in T. Walker et al,

28 July 2020

We examine the financial risk management of the climate crisis from three perspectives. First, we assess the serious risks from climate change. The ecological and financial consequences of climate change depend on the future path of emissions, as well as ...

“Mi casa es tu casa? The Limits of Inter-systemic Dispute Resolution”, World Trade Review 2020.

28 July 2020

The ‘new NAFTA’ agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United States maintained the system for binational panel judicial review of antidumping and countervailing duty determinations of domestic government agencies. In US-Mexico disputes, this hybrid sys ...

“To Dystopia and Beyond: The WTO in a Warming Megaregional World” in Lewis, et al (Eds.) A Post-WTO International Legal Order

28 July 2020

This chapter highlights the linkages between the climate crisis and trade negotiations in a dystopic post-WTO world. It argues that the window of opportunity to achieve an effective multilateral trade regime has closed and will be sealed shut by accelerat ...

The Impact of Exchange Rate Shocks on Trade in Times of Uncertainties: Evidence from Three Oil-Importing Countries in MENA

9 July 2020

This article is published in Statéco n° 113/2019. On the basis of a monthly data relating to trade flows, nominal exchange rates and other economic variables and a VAR model framework, some impulse-response functions (IRFs) are estimated for three Oil-Imp ...

Investigating exchange rate shocks on agricultural trade balance: The case of Tunisia

9 July 2020

This article is published in the Journal of International Trade and Economic Development. The paper studies the impact of changes in Tunisia's exchange rate on the net external position of the agricultural sector. It shows that substitutability on pr ...

Threshold Effect of Globalization on Democracy: the Role of Demography, Journal of the Knowledge Economy

9 July 2020

This article is published in the Journal of the Knowledge Economy. The literature presents conflicting expectations about the effect of globalization on democracy. One view expects globalization to enhance democracy, a second argues that globalization obs ...

Minimum price policy impact in the Tunisian dairy sector, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies

9 July 2020

The objectives of this article published in Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies are to develop a partial equilibrium model for a dairy sector according to two approaches—“Quantity Formulation” and “Price Formulation”—and to show t ...

Unlocking Tunisia’s unexploited export potential"

9 July 2020

The European Union (EU) has long been Tunisia’s leading trade partner. Bilateral trade increased sharply after Tunisia and the EU signed an Association Agreement in 1995 aimed at creating a free trade area for goods, excluding agricultural and fishery pro ...

Effect of Brexit Referendum: The case of Mauritius-UK Trade

14 April 2020

For years, the United Kingdom (UK) has been one of the top export destinations for Mauritius. The Brexit referendum, held in June 2016, not only affected the UK economy but also resulted in several economic repercussions worldwide, including Mauritius. To ...

Research paper "The First WTO’s Ruling on National Security Exception: Balancing Interests or Opening Pandora’s Box?"

25 February 2020

For a multilateral system to be sustainable, it is important to have several escape clauses which can allow countries to protect their national security concerns. However, when these escape windows are too wide or ambiguous, defining their ambit and scope ...

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