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...

International trade has been considered as a mechanism for knowledge diffusion that offers the opportunity to improve technological capabilities of importing countries. By importing capital goods from developed countries, developing countries could achieve their economic development despite...

In this paper we try to measure and to explain total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Tunisia over the period 1983-1996. We do not measure TFP growth by the conventional Solow residual. Instead we define TFP as the shift of the economy?s production frontier, which we obtain year by year by a...

Ce travail propose d'etudier l'impact de la localisation geographique sur les importations en tant que mecanisme de diffusion de connaissances technologiques et sur le rattrapage technologique des pays en developpement. L'utilisation d'un modele gravitationnel et d'un modele de diffusion...

In this paper we aim to measure and decompose the growth of frontier total factor productivity (TFP) in Tunisia over the period 1983-2001. We define frontier TFP growth as the shift of the economy's production frontier, which we obtain by solving for each year a linear program, a sort of...

This paper aims at identifying the sources of comparative advantage and the bottlenecks of the Tunisian economy. By using an activity analysis model and yearly data on the input-output structure and the factor endowments, the paper determines the evolution of the potential of the Tunisian...

This paper aims at identifying the sources of comparative advantage and the bottlenecksof the Tunisian economy. By using an activity analysis model and yearly data on theinput-output structure and the factor endowments, the paper determines the evolution ofthe potential of the Tunisian economy...

In this paper we aim to measure and decompose the growth of frontier total factor productivity (TFP) in Tunisia over the period 1983-2001. We define frontier TFP growth as the shift of the economy's production frontier, which we obtain by solving for each year a linear program, a sort of...