Published Articles
The dynamics of green energy, energy efficiency, economic productivity, and energy-driven emissions in SDG context: Is there a synergistic interplay?, Energy Economics (Elsevier), Volume 141, January 2025, 108063. doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.108063
Household Energy Poverty amidst large-scale electrification: Impacts of Grid Reliability and Off-Grid Solar Technologies (With Luciano Greco and Enrico Rettore). Energy Policy (Elsevier), Volume 208, January 2026, 114914. doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2025.114914
Green and Traditional Productivity Growth with Natural Capital: the Role of Resource Depletion, Environmental Damages and Sectoral Composition. Resources Policy (Elsevier), Volume 103, March 2025, 105544. doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105544
Environmental sustainability and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa: A modified EKC Hypothesis (with Abebe D. Beyene). Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews (Elsevier), Volume 143, June 2021, 110897. doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.110897
The last-mile connection paradox: Power outages, demand-side barriers and household electrification decisions—Implications on energy poverty. Energy for Sustainable Development (Elsevier), Volume 88, October 2025, 101825. doi.org/10.1016/j.esd.2025.101825
Beyond Emissions: Kyoto Protocol, Clean Energy Transitions and Green Productivity Growth—A Collective Approach with Binding Targets (with Alemu L. Hawitibo). Energy Strategy Reviews, Volume 62, November 2025, 101879. doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2025.101879
The disaggregated environmental effects of growth and distributional heterogeneity: Evidence from emerging markets economies (with Alemu L. Hawitibo). Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier), Volume 369, October 2022, 133293. doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.133293
Do traditional energy dependence, income, and education matter in the dynamic linkage between clean energy transition and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa? Renewable Energy (Elsevier), Volume 193, May 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.05.028
Decomposition and macroeconomic drivers of energy intensity: The case of Ethiopia. Energy Strategy Reviews (Elsevier), Volume 35, May 2021, 100641. doi.org/10.1016/j.esr.2021.100641
Carbon decoupling and economic growth in Africa: Evidence from production and consumption-based carbon emissions (with Alemu L. Hawitio). Resources, Environment and Sustainability (Elsevier), Volume 6, December 2021, 100040. doi.org/10.1016/j.resenv.2021.100040
Is Africa a pollution haven or halo? Evidence from 20 largest FDI recipient countries in Africa. International Journal of Green Economics, Volume 14 (1), July 2020. doi.org/10.1504/IJGE.2020.108376
Getting into the details: structural effects of economic growth on environmental pollution in Ethiopia. Heliyon , Volume 7 (7), July 2021, e07688. doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e07688
Sources of recent inflationary pressures and interlinkages between food and non-food prices in Ethiopia (with Helen Demeke). Heliyon, Volume 7 (11), November 2021, e08375. doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08375
Households willingness to pay for improved urban water supply in Dire Dawa city administration: the role of socio-economic factors and water supply-related perceptions (with Akalu Assfaw). Sustainable Water Resources Management (Springer), Volume 8 (24), January 2022. doi.org/10.1007/s40899-022-00625-0
Keeping up with the Joneses: macro-evidence on the relevance of Duesenberry’s relative income hypothesis in Ethiopia (with Tazeb Bisset). Journal of Social and Economic Development (Springer), Volume 24, 549–564, May 2022. doi.org/10.1007/s40847-022-00182-4
Political instability, corruption and inclusive growth in Ethiopia: Transmission channels and moderating roles (with A. Assfaw and Alemu L. Hawitibo). Development and Sustainability in Economics and Finance. Volume 7, September 2025, 100058, doi.org/10.1016/j.dsef.2025.100058
Adoption of Energy-Efficient Technologies and Energy-Saving Behaviours in Ethiopia: The combined role of Environmental Motives, Affordability and Information gaps. http://ssrn.com/abstract=5490946
Large-scale Electrification and Welfare-improving Structural Transformation in the Local Economy (my job market paper)
Electrification and Household Food Insecurity: Source, timing, and reliability of electricity.
Secure Land Rights, Environmental Variability, and Climate Adaptation Investments—(a research project supported by Ronald Coase Institute)