A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH TO THE FAMA-FRENCH THREE- AND FIVE-FACTOR MODELS, with Aliyu Bagudu and Qi Zhang. Accepted at Journal of Forecasting.
Machine Learning Approaches to Testing Institutional Hypotheses: The Case of Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001), Accepted at Empirical Economics.
Financial Inclusion and Ethnic Development: Evidence From Satellite Light Density at Night, with Sami Dakhlia and Akram Temimi, Accepted at Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
National Cultures and Demand for External Audit, Accepted at Journal of Business Ethics.
Entrepreneurship and Genetics: New Evidence, Accepted at Journal of Business Venturing Insights
The determinants of capital ratios in Islamic banking, with Houcem Smaoui and Ines Ben Salah. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2020, 77(C), 186-194.
Bank Concentration and Schumpeterian Growth: Theory and International Evidence, with Wilfried Koch. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2018, 100 (3), 489-501
Local growth and access to credit: Theory and evidence (Previously circulated under the title: Banking reforms and growth: Theory and evidence), with Omar Al-Titi. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2017, 54, 410-423
Bank efficiency and industry growth during financial crises. Economic Modelling, 2018, 68, 11-22
(Previously circulated under the title: Financial dependence and growth during crises: When does bank efficiency really matter?)
Corporate governance, bank concentration and economic growth. Emerging Markets Review, 2017, 32, 28-37
Bank concentration and sectoral growth: Evidence from Chinese Provinces, with Qi Zhang. Economics Letters, 2017, 154, 77-80.
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Long-Term Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Fulbert Tchana Tchana and Albert G. Zeufack (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No 7903, 2016)
Bank competition and crises revisited: New results Economics Letters, 2015, Vol. 129, pp. 81-86.
The Scramble for Africa and the Origins of Financial Underdevelopment: Theory and Evidence, with Wilfried Koch (AEA Video). Revise and Resubmit.
Financial Development and Economic Growth: Long Run Equilibrium and Transitional Dynamics, with Alberto Bucci and Simone Marsiglio.
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade and Economic Development , (Work in Progress)