Tarek Ben Ali

Majmaah University · Department of Administrative Science and Humanities

By applying dynamic panel data models and using worldwide governance indexes and popular country-level entrepreneurship measures over the period 1999 through 2018, this research aims to study why and how does institutional quality afect busi�ness start-up in high- and middle-income countries, after controlling for factors related to the institut...

Purpose-The question of public debt management for both developed and developing economies has created an enormous amount of political as well as academic interest. The purpose of this paper is to examine how governance affects public debt accumulation in the Arabian Gulf countries during the period between 1996 and 2015 period. The six Worldwide G...

The question of public debt management for both developed and developing economies has generated an enormous amount of political as well as academic interest. This study examines how governance affects public debt accumulation in the MENA countries during the 1996–2015 period. The six Worldwide Governance indicators (voice and accountability, polit...

This paper studies how institution quality, through the worldwide governance index, affects public debt accumulation in 17 countries of MENA region. By testing the hypothesis that poor governance leads to higher accumulation of MENA public debt over the period 1996-2015, the results show that only three governance indicators support well this hypot...

Higher education in Tunisia is currently confronted with the explosion of students' number. This significant growth represents an important challenge to take up: Improving the quality of education and its relevance to the labour market and promote entrepreneurial culture and firm creation. In this context, we investigate the entrepreneurial intenti...

Studying entrepreneurial intention has long been an important topic in the field of entrepreneurship. In this paper, we investigate the entrepreneurial intentions of final-year management university students in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by applying the theory of planned behavior (TPB). The objectives of the study were to test whether the TPB can...

Is there a relationship between Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and governance practiced in a given country? To answer this question we used the econometrics of panel data for the MENA region (11 countries) during the period 1996-2014. The results of the econometric estimation show seven variables that are statistically significant, namely the Gros...

This paper will investigate the Granger causality between R&D cooperation and economic growth in 32 industrial and developing countries from 1970 to 2012. We use an innovative econometric method which is based on a panel test of the Granger non causality hypothesis. Using a new method to evaluate causality in a heterogeneous panel, we find that the...

En considérant les économies de la région MENA, l’objet de cette recherche est d’étudier le rôle de l’endettement extérieur dans le financement du développement. Il s’agit en particulier d’étudier la relation entre la dette extérieure et la croissance économique. En fait, les changements politico-économiques que connaît le Sud de la Méditerranée co...

In this paper we investigate the causal relationship between R&D cooperation and economic growth. We use an innovative econometric method which is based on a panel test of the Granger non causality hypothesis. We implement various tests with a sample of 32 industrial and developing countries over the 1970-2012 periods. The results provide support f...

Can the yield spread, which has been found to predict with surprising accuracy the movement of key macroeconomic variables of developed countries, also predict such variables for an emerging country. This paper is an attempt to answer empirically this question for the Tunisian economy. It also examines international financial linkages and how the e...

Considering the economies of North Africa, the purpose of this research is to study the role of external debt in the financing of economic development. In particular, this paper examines the relationship between external debt and economic growth in North African economies. In fact, in recent years the south of the Mediterranean knows significant ch...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of institutional quality on economic growth. Indeed, in recent years economics literature and debates have increasingly referred to the link between governance and economic performances as the appropriate answers to the longstanding questions concerning how economic growth arises. Given this ma...

The environment changes with the development of human activity, which directly threatens humanlife because of the effects accompanying the development of polluting industries. In response to stakeholder pressures, many companies have taken several actions to reduce the negative impactsof their activities on the environment. Based on the theory of t...

L’alignement correct du taux de change réel tunisien et sa stabilité demeurent des facteurs clés dans le nouveau modèle de développement économique que nous sommes en train de semer difficilement mais ambitieusement son germe d’émergence. Dans ce contexte, la politique de change, considérée parmi les instruments les plus importants de la politique...