Heterogeneous Trade Agreements and Adverse Implications of Restrictive Rules of Origin: Evidence from Apparel Trade, The World Economy, August 2023, 1-29 (with R. Robertson). Brief: Harnessing Regional Trade Agreements as Development Policy Instrument. Article: Worried about Central American emigration? Consider trade policy
CEO Divorce and Firm Operating Performance. Academy of Management Discoveries, 8(4), December 2022, 561–584. (With Ingo Kleindienst, Denis Schweizer, Juliane Proelss, and Tünde Cserpes). Summary: Divorce Hurts CEO Performance at Small and High-Growth Firms. Academy of Management Insights, July 2022.
Coping with the Crisis and Export Diversification. The World Economy, 43(5), May 2020, 1452–1481 (With Valerie Smeets and Frederic Warzynski).
Importing and Firm Productivity in Ethiopian Manufacturing. The World Bank Economic Review, 33 (3), October 2019, 772–792.
A Dynamic Model of Firm Activities: Evidence from Danish Manufacturing. The World Economy, 42(3), March 2019, 901-935.
Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa: Seizing Opportunities in Global Value Chains. 2021.Africa Development Forum. Washington, DC: World Bank (With Woubet Kassa, Emmanuel K. K. Lartey, Taye A. Mengistae, Solomon Owusu, and Albert G. Zeufack). Policy Brief: Industrialization Remains Viable in Sub-Saharan Africa. Washington, D.C.: World Bank.
Mobile Access Expansion and Price Information Diffusion: Firm Performance after Ethiopia’s Transition to 3G in 2008, 2021. Policy Research Working Paper 9752, World Bank, Washington DC (With Jiuen Choi, Woubet Kassa, Hjyun Ju Kim, Maurice Kugler).
Africa in Manufacturing Global Value Chains: Cross-Country Patterns in the Dynamics of Linkages, 2020, Policy Research Working Paper 9439, World Bank, Washington DC (With Emmanuel K. K. Lartey, Taye A. Mengistae, Solomon Owusu, and Albert G. Zeufack).
Deconstructing the Missing Middle: Informality and Growth of Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2022, Policy Research Working Paper 10233, World Bank, Washington DC (With Xavier Cirera, Elywin Davies, Roberto Fattal-Jaef, and Hibret Maemir)
Productivity Dynamics and Drivers in the Ethiopian Manufacturing: Some New Evidence. (With Hibret Maemir and Miguel Sánchez-Martín)
Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Firms: Firm-level Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing
Growth and Stability Effects of Firm Export Diversification
Price-setting and Multi-product Firms
Production Disruption and Under-capacity Operation in Ethiopian Manufacturing
Boosting Resilience: The Future of Social Protection in Africa. Africa’s Pulse, Volume 25, April 2022. Washington, DC: World Bank
Place, Productivity, and Prosperity: Revisiting Spatially Targeted Policies for Regional Development. 2022. Washington, DC: World Bank
Chapter 5: "Harness Global Value Chains", République de Côte d’Ivoire 2021-2030 - Sustaining High, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth Post COVID-19: A World Bank Group Input to the 2030 Development Strategy. 2021. Washington, DC: World Bank.
COVID-19 and the Future of Work in Africa: Emerging Trends in Digital Technology Adoption. Africa’s Pulse, Volume 23, April 2021. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Charting the Road to Recovery. Africa’s Pulse, Volume 22, October 2020. Washington, DC: World Bank.