The WTO Chair at ESSECT University of Tunis kicks off a three-year project with the WTO Chair at North-West University in South Africa. 2-4 December. North-West University. Potchefstroom Campus.

Insaf Guedidi participated to “Les Journées de l’economie” in Lyon (France) and she represented ESSEC-University of Tunis.    

Insaf Guedidi, a Ph.D. student and WCP-Université de Tunis Junior Fellow, was in Geneva to present her research “A GVC perspective of Trade Facilitation: Same impact on sectors and regions?” during UNCTAD Summer School 2019 in the UN office. Very fruitful discussions about trade and development were going on under the theme of ” The crisis of Multilateralism: Is […]

Presentation of a research project conducted by WTO Chair members “Impact of NTMs on ​SMEs​ in Tunisia​” at the Tunisian National School of Administration (ENA) on March 23rd​, 2018​. Leila Baghdadi, WTO Chair holder, presented the study as well as some policy recommendations. Thanks to Dr. Smeets, from the ITTC/WTO, for inviting the WTO Chair […]

4th Trade Policy Course at TBS was organized during May 11/12/13​, 2018​: Dr. Hendrik Kruse from Gottingen University gave an intensive course on advanced gravity models using STATA for junior (master and PhD students) and senior researchers.     Program: 1) Basic introduction to the idea of Gravity 2) Micro-foundations (Anderson and van Wincoop 2003) and the role […]

The 4th MENA Trade workshop will take place on March 21-22, 2018 in Beit El Hikma, Carthage, Tunisia and it will conclude with two policy round tables in presence of leading researchers, policy makers and NGOs leaders. The workshop is organized by the World Trade Organization Chair at Tunis Business School, University of Tunis in […]

Leila Baghdadi, WTO Chair Holder at Tunis Business School, has been nominated as a member of the Council of Economic Analysis.     For more information click here.     

Haifa Messaoudi, Junior Fellow at WTO Chair-TBS, completed a training on Quantitative Analysis of Trade Policies, March 27-31 in Dakar, Senegal. The training was organized by The African Institute for Economic Development and Planning (IDEP)/the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.   http://www.uneca.org/stories/idep-builds-capacity-25-african-policymakers-design-international-trade-policies

TBS is now part of the Euro-Meditterranean Network of Economic Studies as a partner. http://emnes.org/partners/ Leila Baghdadi, WTO Chair Holder at TBS, is part of the EMNES Associate Committee.http://emnes.org/about-us/associate-committee/

Risk Aversion, Environmental Regulation and Cournot Competition on Electricity Wholesale Market     By Houeida Hedfi, Abdessalem Abbassi and Ahlem Dakhlaoui     Abstract: This paper analyses the effect of green energy promotion policies in a decentralized power industry. We develop a Cournot duopolistic competition between risk-adverse operators each detaining polluting and clean technologies. We show […]