This paper aims at extending some recent publications about the relationship between antidumping filings and macroeconomic factors by comparing the United States (US) and the European Union (EU), two major users of antidumping procedures. Results of our estimations confirm that the exchange rate...

This paper tests for the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic growth among some developing countries distributed between three geographic areas, over the period 1990-2005. Our results are derived from the 3SLS estimator. Our main findings show that FDIs do...

We explore the role of the discount on closed-end funds (CEFD) in asset pricing and test its validity as a proxy for investor sentiment in the Canadian stock market. Results show that CEFD is not a priced factor. Both cross-sectional and time-series tests confirm that stocks with different...

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...

This paper presents a methodological extension of Deaton's (1990) model for estimating price elasticities, by pooling Tunisian data from several surveys to improve the inter-cluster variability of unit values which is one of the key elements used in the derivation of these elasticities. Since...