Current position

Policy analyst-Economist, European Commission,  Directorate General Economic and Financial Affairs

 Recent manuscripts

"Trends in rainfall and economic growth in Africa: A neglected cause of the African growth tragedy", with Luisito bertinelli and Eric Strobl, Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

"The dynamics of regional inequalities", with Eric Strobl, Regional Science and Urban Economics, forthcoming.download here

"International taxation and corporate location decisions", CEPR Discussion paper # 7047, with Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven and Gaetan Nicodeme, 2008 download here

Recent academic publications

"Impact of Climatic Change on Agricultural Production: Is it different for Africa?", with Eric Strobl and Osman Ouattara, Food Policy 33(4):287-298, 2008, download here

“Climatic change and rural-urban migration: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa” with Luisito bertinelli and Eric Strobl, Journal of Urban Economics 60: 357-371, 2006. download here

 ""Geographic Concentration And Establishment Scale: An Extension Using Panel Data," with Luisito bertinelli and Eric Strobl, Journal of Regional Science 46(4): 733-746, 2006.

"Foreign direct investment, competition and industrial development in the host country," with holger Görg and Eric Srobl European Economic Review 49(7): 1761-1784,2005.

More papers in IDEAS - RePEc   can be accessed here