• closedAccess   Standards and political connections: Evidence from Tunisia 

      Kruse, Hendrik Wiard; Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Baghdadi, Leila Elsevier (2021-08-17)
      In this paper we investigate whether trade liberalization leads to more stringent product standards in a developing country context, uncovering the role that the connected firms’ market share plays in markets dominated by ...
    • openAccess   Trade policy and input liberalization: The effect on Egyptian firms’ productivity 

      Martinez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Said, Mona; Zaki, Chahir Wiley (2021-05-14)
      This paper explores the link between trade liberalization and firms’ performance in Egypt combining macro and micro data. Using the Economic Census of Egypt 2013, we examine the association between tariffs and non-tariffs ...