[eng] The purpose of this article is to examine whether there exists, beyond the link well-known between innovation and competence, a link between the core internal competences of the company and its participation in technological cooperative agreements. In order to test this link, we mobilize a...

This paper investigates the contribution of FDI to firms' technical efficiency based on a two-stage empirical method. Using panel data for 674 firms belonging to the Tunisian manufacturing sector and observed over the period 1997-2001, a bootstrap procedure is applied to correct for serial...

There is a growing consensus that what you export matters for growth (see for instance, Haussman and al. 2007 and Krishna and Maloney (2011)). This paper examines whether and to what extent Jordan and Tunisia, the two most globally integrated countries of the Middle East and North Africa region,...