Publications
Substitution Between Public and Private Consumption: Theory and Evidence on the Role of Non-Homothetic Preferences (with Anne Barthel) Working Paper Version Accepted: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
On Estimates of Overall Budget Sensitivity Parameters Across Income Groups: Some Evidence (with E. Lacey and Robert Utz) Working Paper Version Accepted Economics Bulletin, Volume 43, Issue 3, September 30, 2023.
On the Complementarity between Private and Public Consumption: Implication for Fiscal Policy in European Countries (with Andrew Keinsley) Working Paper Version Empirical Economics, 65, pages 1655–1692 (2023)
Habits, Rule-of-Thumb Consumption, and Useful Public Consumption in Sub-Sahara Africa: Theory and New Evidence pdf [AERC Working Paper] Journal of African Economies (Lead Article), Volume 32, Issue 5, November 2023, Pages 469–494.
Heterogeneity in the long-run remittance-output relationship: Theory and New evidence (with Nazneen Ahmad, Andrew Keinsley, Akwasi Nti-Addae) pdf old version at the NEUDC Substantially Revised Working Paper Slides at NUEDC featured under Macroeconomics: Growth, Trade, and Business Cycles here: [World Bank Blogs, Center for Global Development] [Global Development Blog, PeopleMove] Economic Modelling, Volume 110 May (2022) 10579
Foreign Aid and Output: The Role of Substitutability Between Public and Private Consumption (with Andrew Keinsley) Journal of African Development, (2021) 22 (2): 279–301. [Pre-publication version]
"On Gender and Spatial Gaps In Africa's Informal Sector: Evidence from Urban Ghana" (with Elvis Avenyo and Tatenda Zinyemba) Economic Letters, Volume 199, February 2021, 109732. UNU-MERIT working papers WP2020-028. old version focusing on COVID pdf
"Do Better Institutions Broaden Access to Sanitation in sub-Sahara Africa" (with Christelle Kouame and Johnson Kakeu) Contemporary Economic Policy, 39.2 (2021): 435-452 Pre-publication version
"Foreign Official Holdings of U.S Treasuries, Stock Effect, and the Economy: A DSGE Approach" The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Contributions 2020 vol. 20(1), pages 1-28, January. [Pre-publication version]
"The Long-run Relationship Between Government Consumption and Output in Developing Countries: Evidence From Panel Data " (with Andrew Keinsley) Economic Letters, January 2019, 174(96-99) [Pre-publication version] [Replication Data]
"Divisia Monetary Aggregates for Developing Economies: Some Theory" (with Ryan Mattson) Economics Bulletin, 2019, Volume 39, Issue 3, pages 2221-2227 [also featured at the Center for Financial Stability]
"Substitution Between Private and Government Consumption in African Economies" (with Dawood, Taufiq), Economic Modelling, June 2018, 73(129-139). [Pre-publication version] [Replication Code and Data]
"The Paradox of Capital Flight from a Capital-Starved Continent" (with Elizabeth Asiedu and Akwasi-Nti-Addae) Concerned Africa's Scholars Bulletin, 2012, 87, 22-28
Book Chapter and Other Papers
"Fiscal Policy Effectiveness through the Lenses Useful of Government Consumption (with Andrea Mata)" (2021), Forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of the Economy of Cameroon (Ed. Celestin Monga)
Working Papers
Cross Country Heterogeneity, Financial development and Long-run Growth: New Methods for Old Questions (with Alberto Posso, Rafi Nurul and Lwanga Elizabeth Nanziri) Submitted at Annals of Finance
The People's Voice and Access to Sanitation (with Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong, Johnson Kakeu, Cristelle Kouame), Working Paper
On the Supercomplementarity of Public Investment: Theory and Evidence (with Maty Konte and Leonce Ndikumana), Working Paper
Working in Progress
Debt Relief with or without Reform (with Stephen A. O'Connell and Benno Ndulu)
Government Spending Multipliers and Imperfect Asset Substitution (with Andrew Keinsley) pdf
Institution, Income and Deforestation