Research

Content type

Chairs

Trade Topics

Year

"High growth firms and trade linkages: Imports do matter", published in Small Business Economics

19 February 2022

This paper examines the association between high-growth firm status and global linkages with special focus on the role of imports. We rely on a rich panel data covering all formal firms in Tunisia between 1999 and 2015. Our results show that firms that im ...

Lutte contre le COVID-19: Mesure de la vulnérabilité des entreprises des pays en développement au choc du COVID-19

11 March 2021

Une équipe constituée de deux UMR IRD (Développement et sociétés et LEDA) et une institution partenaire tunisienne (l'ESSEC Tunis) ont reçu un arbitrage positif dans le cadre de l'appel à projet flash lancé par l'ANRS en avril dernier pour ...

"The dynamics of High Growth Firms: Evidence from Tunisia".

19 November 2020

This paper examines the dynamics and characteristics of high-growth firms in Tunisia. Further knowledge about the dynamics of these firms can inform the design of business support policies, especially toward small and medium-size firms. The analysis sugge ...

How internationalization affects firms’ growth in the MENA region? A quantile regression approach, Economics Bulletin

14 May 2019

In this paper, we contribute to the literature by studying the effect of internationalization on the conditional firm growth rate distribution in eight countries from the MENA region. We use four measures of internationalization: exporting status, two-way ...