Senior Fellow
Assistant Professor, ESSECT – University of Tunis.
e-mail: racem.mehdi@wanadoo.fr
Research topics
[1] Trade Policy
[2] Political Economy of Institutions
[3] Public Choice
Publications
[1] « Is WTO Dispute Settlement System Biased Against Developing Countries? An Empirical Analysis » (with Fabien Besson), in J-R Chen, C. Smekal & K. Socher eds. (2009), Contributions to the Studies of International Institutions to Global Governance, University of Innsbruck Press (ISBN : 9783902571922)
[2] « Les déterminants du protectionnisme agricole au sein de l’Union Européenne : Les raisons de l’exclusion des produits méditerranéens de la libéralisation des échanges euro-méditerranéens » (with Sonia Bassi), in J-Y Moisseron & M. Boudhiaf eds. (2004), Mondialisation, ouverture et société de la connaissance en Méditerranée, édition IRD/Horizons, pp. 17-34 (ISBN : 9789772415830)
Working papers
[1] «Understanding Democratic Transition using Self-Organizing Maps: a Special Focus on Arab Spring Countries» (with Houda Haffoudhi and Abdelkader Gam), ERF Working paper, forthcoming.
[2] «The Cooperative Sustainable Tariffs: A Political Economy Perspective», Documents de travail du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, n°2008-18, 2008.
Work in progress
[1] «The Determinants of Regime Change » (avec Salwa Trabelsi)
[2] «The Distribution of Power in the Tunisian Constitution: Special Interests versus General Interests»