Aim of the paper Entrepreneurship is recognized as an engine of both economic growth and development (Audretsch & al, 2006). Such growth results in social and cultural change as new companies and industries are created and have their impact. Women entrepreneurs contribute greatly to this dynamic...

Les femmes entrepreneurs vivent la croissance différemment. Contrairement à une vision plus traditionnelle de l'entrepreneuriat féminin, notre étude porte sur l’hypothèse selon laquelle certaines femmes entrepreneures cherchent délibérément la croissance. A partir de cette hypothèse,...

This paper proposes an international trade model under uncertainty in which international differences in financial development provide the basis for trade. When preferences exhibit risk vulnerability as defined by Gollier and Pratt [1996], financial development reduces individuals’ risk...

In a context of generalization of decentralization in the world going "hand in hand" with democratization and globalization, Brazil qualifies the universality of this process, at least in matter of fiscal federalism. In the paper, we firstly adopt a comparative perspective relative to an...

In this paper, we implement Granger causalty tests using panel data as methodology perfected by Hurlin (2004, 2005) and Hurlin and Venet(2004). We consider the bilateral trade patterns of the European Union with 17 countries over the period 1976-2000. We show that for the whole sample, there are...

This paper investigates the welfare effects of international trade when technological idiosyncratic risk is distorted by optimistic and pessimistic managers. We show that free trade always improves the ex-ante welfare but sometimes lowers the ex-post welfare. Free trade commitment can be...

Le Laboratoire Prospective, Stratégie et Développement Durable (PS2D) de la Faculté des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion de Tunis (Université Tunis El Manar) et le Réseau de chercheurs de l’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie ‘Analyse Economique et Développement’...

Le retour du Brésil à la démocratie s’est accompagné d’une ouverture aux échanges au niveau multilatéral (OMC) et régional(Mercosur). Simultanément, la constitution de 1988 affirmait une volonté forte de décentralisation fiscale. Vingt ans plus tard, le bilan de l’intégration...