Commodity Trade in Colonial Africa, in Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies, ed. Chima Korieh.
Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
Trade Costs and the Integration of West Africa in the Global Economy, c. 1840-1940 (with Nektarios Aslanidis and Oscar Martinez)
Economic History Review (2024)
Idea: uncovering and explaining the divergence between African and global trade costs since the late 19th century.
Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Methods and History, in The History of African Development, ed. Frankema, Ewout, Hillbom, Ellen, Kufakurinani, Ushehwedu and Meier zu Selhausen, Felix
African Economic History Network (2024).
How Extractive Was Colonial Trade? Evidence from French Africa, in Accounting for Colonialism, ed. Richard America
Palgrave McMillan (2024).
Income Inequality and Export-Oriented Commercialization in Colonial Africa: Evidence from Six Countries (with Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom, Michiel de Haas)
Economic History Review (2023)
Top cited article, among the 10 highest-cited articles published in the Economic History Review in 2023 (out of 47)
Idea: using social tables to evaluate the relationship between exports and inequality in colonial Africa
Media: African Long-term Inequality Trends, Frontiers in African Economic History.
From Sickle to Hammer: The Decline of Production Frictions and the Industrialization of Russia (with G. Blasco)
Industrial History Review (2023)
Idea: studying the impact of monopoly capitalism on Russian industrialization
Media: The Great Spurt.
Colonizer Identity and Trade in Africa: Were the British More Favourable to Free Trade?
Economic History Review (2022)
Top cited article, among the 10 highest-cited articles published in the Economic History Review in 2022 and 2023 (out of 96)
Manuscript and Online Appendix
Idea: free trade in colonial Africa was determined much more by local conditions than by formal colonial trade policies
Media: Frontiers in African Economic History, The Long Run.
Book Review of African Seaports and Maritime Economics in Historical Perspective by Ayodeji Olukoju and Daniel Castillo Hidalgo (eds.)
Economic History Research (2022, book review).
Measuring historical income inequality in Africa: What can we learn from social tables? (with Jutta Bolt, Ellen Hillbom, and Michiel de Haas)
Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Papers (2021) and African Economic History Working Papers (2021).
The Integration of West Africa in the Global Economy, 1842-1938 (with Nektarios Aslanidis and Oscar Martinez)
Department of Economics Working Papers, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2020).
Colonizer Identity and Trade in Africa: Were the British More Favourable to Free Trade?
UB Economics Working Papers (2020).
Measuring Extractive Institutions: Colonial Trade and Price Gaps in French Africa
European Review of Economic History (2020)
Lead Article and Editor's Choice
Figuerola Prize for the best article published in the European Review of Economic History in the previous two years (out of 64)
Top-14 highest cited article on the economic history of Africa published in 2000-2024.
Idea: quantifying colonial extraction by looking at gaps between African and world market prices
Media: Positive Checks, The Power and the Money.
Income Inequality in French West Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Senegal and Ivory Coast (with Guido Alfani)
UB Economics Working Papers (2019).
Economic History of Developing Regions (2018)
Lead Article
Idea: the areas of ex-French Africa that suffered larger losses from colonial trade are less developed today
Media: Frontiers in African Economic History.
Measuring Extractive Institutions: Colonial Trade and Price Gaps in French Africa
EHES Working Papers in Economic History (2017).
Income Inequality in Colonial Africa: Building Social Tables for Pre-Independence Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Central African Republic (with G. Alfani)
African Economic History Working Paper Series (2017) and IGIER Working Papers, Bocconi University (2017).
Colonial Trade and Price Gaps in French Africa,
Journal of Economic History (2016, abstract).
Extractive Institutions and Gains from Trade: Evidence from Colonial Africa
IGIER Working Papers, Bocconi University (2014).
The Legacy of Slavery on Human Capital Accumulation in Africa
Journal of Economic History (2011, abstract).