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...

The last thirty years have witnessed a general liberalization process of merchandize trade flows. Indeed, tariffs have sharply decreased thanks to the multilateral, regional and/or bilateral trade integration agreements. However, concerns have been raised about the use of Non-Tariffs Measures...

Increases in total factor productivity (TFP) are commonly associated with accumulation of knowledge through technological innovation and investment in R&D. However, organizational innovations also improve productivity through the reduction of transaction costs. The main purpose of the paper is...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a suitable methodology for estimating the extent to which less developed countries — namely Tunisia — that hardly invest in research and development benefit from R&D that is conducted in industrial countries. In this study we use the imports of...

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 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....