Research

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

Regional favoritism in access to credit (with L. Weill). Public Choice, forthcoming. [Article]
Negative interest rate policy and bank' earnings management (with W. Boungou and D. Taylor). Economics Letters, 2024. [Article]
Democracy and Intra-Africa Trade (with W. Boungou and A. Zongo). Comparative Economic Studies, 2024. |Article]
Individualism reduces borrower discouragement (with L. Weill). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2023. [Article]
Cold time, cool time? Weather-induced moods and financial risk tolerance: Evidence from a real-world banking context (with Marie-Hélène Broihanne and H. Orkut). Finance Research Letters, 2023. [Article]
Democracy favors access to credit of firms (with L. Weill). European Journal of Political Economy, 77, 102312, 2023. [Article]
The Ukraine-Russia war and systemic financial stress (with W. Boungou, A. Yatié and A. Zongo). Economics Bulletin, forthcoming.
Bank Efficiency and Access to Credit: International Evidence (with L. Weill). Economic Systems, 101016, 46, 3, 2022. [Article]
Language gender-marking and borrower discouragement (with J. Bertrand and L. Weill). Economics Letters, 2022 [Article]
High corruption, less bank efficiency? Comparative Economic Studies, 64 (3), 540-561, 2022.[Article]
Sex, language and financial inclusion (with L. Weill). Economics of Transitional and Institutional Change 29 (3), 369-403, 2021.[Article]
How language shapes bank risk taking (with L. Weill). Journal of Financial Services Research 59, 47-68, 2021.[Article]

Works in Progress

Secured loans during the COVID 19 pandemic (with W. Boungou and A. Zongo, Submitted).
Does Money Talk in Crisis Times? Corruption and Firms’ Access to Credit During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with W. Boungou and A. Zongo, Submitted).
Corruption and Intra-African Trade: Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries (with W. Boungou and A. Zongo, submitted).
Is it a man's wor(l)d? The effect of linguistic gender-marking on female entrepreneurship (with C. Perrin).
Better prepared to face Covid-19? An investigation of organizational learning from banking crises experience (with V. Lefebvre).
Winter and bank lending (with W. Boungou and H. Orkut).
Dimensions of religiousness and entrepreneurship (with J. Bertrand and P. Olivier-Klein).
Mobile money and women firms' access to credit.