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The Porter Hypothesis Revisited: A Literature Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Tests

Wagner, Marcus - EconWPA - 2004

The debate on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness has been a topic of discussion for a number of years now. As early as 1991, the American economist Michael E. Porter proposed that stringent environmental regulation (under the condition that it is efficient) can...

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Performance of Indian commercial banks (1995-2002): an application of data envelopment analysis and Malmquist productivity index

Galagedera, Don U.A.; Edirisuriya, Piyadasa - EconWPA - 2004

This paper investigates efficiency using data envelopment analysis (DEA) and productivity growth using Malmquist index in a sample of Indian commercial banks over the period 1995-2002. Using total deposits and operating expenses as input and loans and other earning assets as output in the DEA...

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Capital account liberalization and exchange rate regime choice, what scope for flexibility in tunisia ?

Sami, Ben Ali Mohamed - EconWPA - 2005

speculative attacks. Others on the contrary, assert the merits of the rigid fixed exchange regimes. The adoption by Tunisia of … world economy. So the total liberalization of the exchange in Tunisia poses the problematic of the prospective choice of its …

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Impacts of the Euro-Tunisian agreements of free exchange: evaluation by a Computable General Equilibrium Model in 1996

Salem, Haykel Hadj - EconWPA - 2004

of a Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area (FTA). Among the first participants in the constitution of this zone, is Tunisia …, which signed an agreement of association with the European Union (EU). Since the signature of this agreement, Tunisia has … is to compare the effects of the free total exchange and the effects of the free industrial exchange between Tunisia and …

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Testing for Separation in Agricultural Household Models and Unobservable Individual Effects: A Note

Arcand, Jean-Lois; d'Hombres, Béatrice - EconWPA - 2005

When market structure is complete, factor demands by households will be independent of their characteristics, and households will take their production decisions as if they were profit-maximizing firms. This observation constitutes the basis for one of the most popular empirical tests for...

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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

-firm data in 1999. This tells us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia differ from the …

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The Macroeconomic Social Accounting Matrix of Tunisia in 1996

Salem, Haykel Hadj - EconWPA - 2004

This paper shows the characteristics of the macroeconomic Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) of Tunisia in 1996. It is … corresponding to Tunisia during 1996. This study is made up of two sections. In the first section, we will present the construction … of the unbalanced Macroeconomic Social Accounting Matrix (SAMmac) of Tunisia in 1996. This section includes three sub …

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EXCHANGE RATE AND INFLATION TARGETING IN MOROCCO AND TUNISIA

Nathalie, Grand; Vincent, Dropsy - EconWPA - 2005

Morocco and Tunisia have started to open their markets to international trade and capital flows in order to bolster … their exchange rate regimes and monetary policies. This objective of this paper is to examine why Morocco and Tunisia should … probabilities is estimated for Morocco and Tunisia to provide important information concerning the mechanisms underlying inflation …

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Japanese Saving Rate

Chen, Kaiji; Imrohoroglu, Ayse; Imrohoroglu, Selo - EconWPA - 2005

Japanese and U.S. saving rates have been significantly different over the last forty years. Can a standard growth model explain this difference? The answer is yes. Our results indicate that both an infinite horizon, complete markets setup and an overlapping generations model with incomplete...

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Trends in East European Factor Productivity

Kyn, Oldrich; Kyn, Ludmila - EconWPA - 2005

During the 1960s most of the countries of Eastern Europe experienced a visible retardation of economic growth. This paper supports the view of many Eastern as well as Western economists that the retardation was caused primarily by declining rates of growth of the total factor productivity. The...

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