This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first innovation survey of the Tunisian firms. Starting from basic mechanisms of innovation processes and existing results on other developing countries, we test a set of assumptions on the characteristics of innovating firms in a developing...

This paper studies the choice of the exchange rate regime in emerging and developing countries. Our model extends the approach proposed by Aizenman and Hausmann [2001] in order to introduce the main determinants of the exchange rate regime choice. The model is tested with a multinomial logit...

Innovation is widely recognised as a key driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works focus especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while distinguishing between its various types (product innovation, process innovation, radical innovation and...

Cet article analyse le choix du régime de change dans les pays émergents et en développement. Par rapport à la littérature existante, il s'en démarque en développant une approche à la fois théorique et empirique. Le modèle s'inscrit dans la littérature caractérisée par la...

L'objet de cet article, appliqué au cas de la crise de change coréenne de 1997-1998, est d'identifier la contagion à travers une étude empirique de la dynamique des anticipations des investisseurs qui s'affranchisse de la pseudo explication cache misère par une variable « tache solaire »....

This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first innovation survey of the Tunisian firms. Starting from basic mechanisms of innovation processes, we test a set of conjectures adapted to a developing country like Tunisia. We analyze the motivation of firms to innovate and the determinants...

Water scarcity and the increasing water demand for irrigation in olive orchards are leading to adopt deficit irrigation approaches and the use of saline water. Field experiment was conducted on nine-year-old olive trees (Olea europaea L. cv. Chemlali) grown on sandy deep soil and drip irrigated...

In this paper, we explore the link between firm productivity and exporting using three firm level datasets of 1323 Tunisian manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2006. In particular, we examine whether more productive firms self-select into export markets, and

Urban expansion of the city of Tunis, source of distortion of inter-zones balance between housing supply and employment, does only increase daily mobility and increases pressure on public transportation in terms of traffic, on transportation infrastructure in terms of congestion and on the...

Recently, outsourcing services became an important component of the organizational strategy of the firm. However, a large number of studies focused mainly on the determinants of outsourcing ignoring its structural effects. The aim of this paper is to examine to what extent outsourcing...