“This book is a must-read. It is the only one that it is totally dedicated to the Tunisian social and economic issues which have been neglected by the political class and analysts.” -Hedi Larbi, Professor, Political Sciences Institute, Paris, France and Senior Scholar, Kennedy School of...

Could a Credit Bureau incite banks to report correct information about their borrowers? We develop a spatial competition model à-la Salop (1979) with n interacting banks having the possibility to misreport information to a Credit Bureau. We show that the Credit Bureau can discipline banks and...

The recent global financial crisis has induced a series of failure of many conventional banks and led to an increased interest in the Islamic banking business model. This paper attempts to answer empirically the following question: What was the effect of the 2007–2008 financial crisis on the...

The relationship between economic development and income inequality is not neutral vis-à-vis the role of the financial system in responding to the needs of different categories of agents. The literature on persistent inequality shows that taking account of the asymmetric impact of financial...