Research

Selected Research

Gunning, J, Krishnan, P and Mengistu, A. (2024), "Fading Choice: Transport Costs and Variety in Consumer Goods ", Economica, forthcoming. 

Giulia Mascagni, Mengistu A, Firew Woldeyes (2021), "Can ICTs increase tax? Evidence on taxpayer responses to technological innovation in Ethiopia", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Vol. 189, 2021, pp 172-193.

Mengistu, A., Kiflu G. Molla & Giulia Mascagni (2021) "Tax Evasion and Missing Imports: Evidence from Transaction-Level Data", Journal of African Economies,2021: ejab005.

Croke K, Mengistu A, O'Connell SD, Tafere K, (2020) "The impact of a health facility construction campaign on health service utilisation and outcomes: analysis of spatially linked survey and facility location data in Ethiopia", BMJ Global Health 2020;5:e002430. 

Mengistu, A.; Benitez, P.; Tamiru, S.; Medhin, H.; Toman, M. (2019) "Exploring Carbon Pricing in Developing Countries: A Macroeconomic Analysis in Ethiopia". Sustainability 2019, 11, 4395. 

Giulia Mascagni and  Mengistu, A. (2018), " Effective Tax Rate and Firm Sizes in Ethiopia", Development Policy Review, Vol. 36, issue 5

Mengistu, A. (2014), "Testing the UIP hypothesis using data from partially dollarized developing countries", International Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 6, No. 4. 

Working Papers

Hebous, S. and Mengistu, A. (2024), “Efficient Economic Rent Taxation under a Global Minimum Corporate Tax,” IMF Working Paper, WP 2024/057.

Hebous, S., Hillier, C., and Mengistu, A. (2024), “Deciphering the GloBE in a Low-Tax Jurisdiction,” IMF Working Paper, WP 2024/64.

Mengistu, A. and Mascagni,G. (2018), "Are There Any Reliable Data on Wages in Low-Income Countries? Observations and Lessons from Ethiopia", ATAP Working Paper 3, Brighton: IDS 

Mengistu, A., Kiflu G. Molla, and Firew B. Woldeyes (2017)," Microsimulation Tax Benefit System ", UNU-WIDER SOUTHMOD Country Report Series. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER. 

Mengistu, A., Firew, B., and Kiflu G. (2015), "Tax-Benefit Microsimulation feasibility ", WIDER Working Paper 2015/115