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CO2 emissions, environmental provisions and global value chains in MENA countries

1 December 2020

The paper investigates the relationship between carbon emissions, environmental provisions in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) and Global Value Chains (GVCs) using a panel data gravity model for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region over the peri ...

"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 ...

Export diversification and industrial policy in Tunisia

19 November 2020

This paper explores the Tunisian experience of exports diversification and the role played by industrial policies. It describes the general trends and the dynamics of diversification using a very disaggregated data set on exports for the period 1995-2017, ...

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 ...

"Governance and renewable energy investment in MENA countries: How does trade matter?" appeared in Energy Economics

11 November 2019

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have recently developed renewable energy (RE) markets. However, their rate of investment in renewable energy remains small compared to other regions in the world despite their relatively abundant endowment ...

"Assessing the performance of offshore firms in Tunisia" published in Journal of Economic Integration

11 November 2019

This paper examines the performance of offshore firms in Tunisia for the period 2002~2014. Using firm-level data, we analyze the impact of offshoring on turnover, productivity, wages and firm survival. Overall, offshore firms perform better with respect t ...

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