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Impact of non-tariff measures on SMEs in Tunisia

17 February 2018

This paper analyses the overall effect of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) on firms in Tunisia, with a particular attention paid to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It draws a precise view of NTMs effects on firms’ imports as well as on firms’ product ...

Standards and Market Power: Evidence from Tunisia

17 February 2018

We develop a theoretical model and derive conditions under which firms with market power try to influence the setting of quality standards and describe the political equilibrium. We show that in political equilibrium the positive association only holds fo ...

In search of new development model for Tunisia: assessing the performance of the offshore regime

17 February 2018

The main purpose of this paper is to examine the offshore regime in Tunisia and to assess the overall effects of this export promoting strategy for the years 2002-2014. Using firm-level data, we look in particular at its impact on turnover, productivity, ...

Effects of Trade Facilitation on Sectoral Trade

9 August 2017

This contribution focuses on the analysis of the relationship between trade facilitation, transport costs and sectoral trade in developing countries. A gravity model is estimated using sectoral exports from 181 countries over the period 2004-2013. The mod ...

FIRMS, TRADE AND EMPLOYMENT IN TUNISIA

1 June 2016

This paper aims to investigate whether exposure to international trade increases the firm’s ability to create jobs, improve its productivity and profitability using a unique Tunisian firm level data set. Several types of firms are considered: onshore non- ...

Is Tunisian Trade Policy Pro-Poor?

27 May 2016

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of Tunisian trade policy on household welfare. We use the recently released household survey data in combination with estimated tariff pass-through elasticities and wage elasticities obtained from M ...

An estimation of tariff pass-through in Tunisia

1 August 2015

In this paper we evaluate the extent to which changes in tariffs and in international prices are transmitted into consumer prices in Tunisia over the period 2000 to 2008. A pass-through equation is estimated using sectoral panel data at the retail-product ...

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