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"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 ...

"Migration, Trade and Investment", in Women Shaping Global Economic Governance, Edited by Arancha Gonzalez

11 November 2019

Remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) reached $466 billion in 2017, an amount which is three times the size of official development and is larger than foreign direct investment (FDI) for all LMICs excluding China (World Bank 2018). ...

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 ...

Impact of nontariff measures on firms in Tunisia

14 May 2019

This paper analyzes the effect of nontariff measures (NTMs) on firms in Tunisia. It draws a precise picture of NTMs’ effects on firms’ imports. We use firm‐level data to take into account firm heterogeneity. We explore the impact of NTMs on small vs. medi ...

Quantity Formulation vs. Price Formulation and Assessment of the Minimum Price Policy in the Tunisian Dairy Sector

12 November 2018

The objectives of this article are to develop a partial equilibrium model for a dairy sector according to two approaches—“Quantity Formulation” and “Price Formulation”—and to show their equivalence under the assumption of perfect competition. We introduce ...

Risk Aversion, Environmental Regulation and Cournot Competition on Electricity Wholesale Market

12 November 2018

This paper analyses the effect of green energy promotion policies in a decentralized power industry. We develop a Cournot duopolistic competition between risk-adverse operators each detaining polluting and clean technologies. We show that the subsidy-base ...

Governance and renewable energy investment in MENA: How trade matters?

12 November 2018

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

Threshold effect of globalization on democracy: The role of demography

12 November 2018

The literature presents conflicting expectations about the effect of globalization on democracy. One view expects globalization to enhance democracy, a second argues that globalization obstructs democracy; a third argues that it does not necessarily affec ...

Sectoral FDI and food security in Developing Countries: Does institutional quality matter?

9 November 2018

Developing countries (DCs) have high population growth and food demand. Food security still one of the main goals in these countries. Moreover, foreign direct investment (FDI) is at the heart of their investment policy. For DCs attract FDI is an instrumen ...

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

9 November 2018

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-Importing Countries (OICs) of the MENA region. These ...

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