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.
Intratemporal Elasticity of Substitution between Private and Public Consumption: New Evidence and Implications (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]
"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]
"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