The purpose of the paper is to produce new empirical evidence regarding the determinants of R&D investment by Tunisian firms, through introducing the relationship between R&D expenditures and innovation effort of firms. We suppose that factors explaining in-house R&D are not the same according...

The paper analyzes the attractiveness factors of Tunisia with regard to foreign direct investments, considering that the decision of localization is the result not only of the firm?s strategy, but also of the advantages offered by host countries. The estimates are based on qualitative data...

[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...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the regional growth of industrial employment in Tunisia between 2000 and 2005. Based on the contributions of the new economic geography and the empirical findings dealing with agglomeration economies and dynamic externalities in the wake of Glaeser et al....

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...

This paper investigates the contribution of FDI to firms' technical efficiency by applying two empirical methodologies over the same sample of firms. Using a panel data for 674 firms belonging to the Tunisian manufacturing sector and observed over the period 1997-2001, we show statistically and...

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...

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...