Research
PUBLICATIONS
Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa, with Matias Herrera Dappe forthcoming World Bank Economic Review
Energy Price Shocks and Current Account Balances: Evidence from Emerging Market and Developing Economies with Garima Visishtha and Hakan Yilmazkuday Energy Economics Volume 129, January 2024, 107201 WB Policy Research working paper 10623, December 2023
Who wins, who loses? Understanding the Spatially Differentiated Effects of Belt and Road Initiative with Somik Lall
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 146, September 2020, 102496
Follow-up here: Brookings blog (June 21, 2019), covered in World Bank blog "How much do we know about the development impacts of large-scale integrated transport infrastructure?" by Steve Redding. [World Bank Working Papers WPS8806]
The Belt and Road Initiative: Reshaping Economic Geography in Central Asia? with Tony Venables and Julia Bird
Journal of Development Economics, Volume 144, May 2020, 102441 [World Bank Working Papers WPS8807]
WORKING PAPERS
The political economy of services trade agreements with M. Fiorini and V.Rebeyrol [ R&R Journal of International Economics] CESifo Working Paper No. 5927, May 2016
Does Africa Still Need Road Infrastructure in the Digital Age? with A. Mongoue, R Pongou, and F. Zhang [submitted] WB Policy Research working paper 10730, 2024
Trade and Infrastructure Integration in Africa, with Lionel Fontagne, Siobhan Murray, Gianluca Santoni, Michele Ruta [submitted] WB Policy Research working paper 10609, November 2023
Rising Incomes, Transport Demand, and Sector Decarbonization with Ewane Williams WB Policy Research working paper 20010, April 2022
Roads, Electricity, and Jobs: Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa with Mansoureh Abbasi , Arcady Bluette Mongoue, Roland Pongou, Fan Zhang, WB research papers WPS9976, March 2022
Improving Multi-Topic Household Surveys for Better Transport Policy Analysis with Qiuyan Yin WB research papers WPS9944, February 2022
Infrastructure and structural change in the Lake Chad Region [submitted] WB research papers WPS9899, January 2022, covered in World Bank blog series Feb 2022, in Mobility and Development, WB publication Spring 2022
Infrastructure and structural change in the Horn of Africa with Matias Herrera-Dappe [submitted] WB research papers WPS9870, November 2021, covered in World Bank blog series Feb 2022, in Mobility and Development, WB publication Spring 2022
Bridging India and Bangladesh: cross-border trade and the BBIN Motor Vehicle Agreement with Matias Herrera-Dappe and Diana Van Patten [submitted] WB Research Working Paper WPS9592 , covered in World Bank blog series
Corridors without Borders in West Africa [submitted] WB research papers 9855, November 2021, covered in Jeune Afrique (feb 2022), in World Bank blog series April 2022, in Mobility and Development, WB publication Spring 2022, in Project Syndicate blog by R. Pulliti (April 2022), in World Economic Forum
The evolution of city form: Evidence from satellite data, with Somik V. Lall and Maria Edisa Soppelsa [submitted] WB research papers 9618, April 2021- Coverage in Brookings blog
Feeling poor, feeling rich, feeling middle-class: an empirical investigation with Maurizio Bussolo and Ivan Torre [submitted]
WB Policy Research Working Paper 9456
Good Entrepreneurs, Bad Institutions and the Asymmetric Effects of Trade on Productivity with M. Fiorini and A. Osnago
Profit shifting and FDI restrictions CESifo Working Paper No. 5885 (May 2016)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Transport and territorial development in Bangladesh, with Matias Herrera-Dappe
Transport prices with Kerem Cosar and Alejandro Molnar
Road Investment and Violence in DRC: Perishable Effects with H.Mueller, P. Schouten, and J. Steinbucks