Le processus d'accession de l'Algérie à l'OMC, qui a débuté en 1987 dans le cadre du GATT, est de loin le plus long parmi les négociations en cours. Malgré ce délai, un certain nombre de problèmes importants doivent encore être réglés pour aboutir à un accord. Le passage du GATT à...

Algeria. Female Employment in TransitionA first series of studies I carried out in the 1980s revealed the structure and the evolution of female activity in Algeria observed during decade 60-80, from initial conditions that described the colonial situation and the status of women in Algerian...

Can the quality of institutions explain the economic ‘backwardness' of Middle-East and North Africa? Recent work tries to answer this question using the Douglas North neo-institutionnalist theory that explains the rise of the Western world by the emergence in the North of Europe with Xth...

North (2005) attribue l'échec économique du monde musulman aux institutions et à leur incapacité à promouvoir l'adaptation à l'environnement et l'innovation. Il fait remonter cet échec au moyen âge tardif, aux Xe-XIIIe siècles. Pour sa démonstration, il s'appuie sur les travaux d'Avner...

Labour Market and Economic Growth in AlgeriaBetween 1990 and 1997, the rate of unemployment in Algeria doubled, reacching more than 20 % of the working population. If since 2004 a sensitive decline was recorded, it mainly seems to reflect the extension of the informal sector, which represents...

Cet article propose une analyse économique comparative de différentes règles de droit utilisées en cas de rupture de contrat. Il met plus particulièrement l'accent sur trois critères: la rupture efficace du contrat, l'existence d'investissement spécifique dans la relation contractuelle et...

This paper studies horizontal mergers in vertically related markets. In a two-level Cournot model, with an intermediate and a final market, we show that downstream mergers inducing size effects are, ceteris paribus, more profitable than upstream ones. Moreover, a merger at one level reduces the...

We analyze the incentives of a controlling shareholder of a firm to acquire, directly or indirectly through his firm, shares in a competitor. We charaterize the conditions under which these partial acquisitions as well as the equilibrium toehold and its nature: controlling or silent. We find...

This article is about the heterogeneity of "emerging economies" and their different development processes, followed by the analysis of the new international division of labor emerging with their boom, the strong growth and the rapid pace of industrialization of several Asian countries, the...

The article examines the sensibility of economic growth to macroeconomic volatility, and the impact of financial development on volatility for a sample of 85 countries and OECD countries over two periods covering 1975 to 2006. In that purpose, we implented nonstationary panel techniques that...