Research

Peer Reviewed Publications

Unpacking the Dutch Disease: Resource Windfalls and Export Margins (with Woubet Kassa ), IMF Economic Review, 2025 Article

The evolution and implications of national energy cost shares (with Paolo Agnolucci, Vincenzo De Lipsis, Defne Gencer, and Michael Grubb), Energy Economics, 2025 Article

Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues, Journal of Government and Economics, 2024 Article

Agri-food importing firms amid a health crisis (with Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor and Christian Ritzel), Food Policy, 2023 Article

Between altruism and self-aggrandisement: Transparency, accountability and politics in Ghana’s oil and gas sector (with Ishmael Ackah, Theophilius Acheampong, Eric Kyem and Gifty Ketemepi ), Energy Research&Social Science, 2020 Article

Re-visiting the renewable energy-economic growth nexus: Empirical evidence from African OPEC countries (with Oluwafisayo Alabi and Ishmael Ackah), International Journal of Energy Sector Management, 2017 Article

Analysing the efficiency of renewable energy consumption among oil-producing African countries (joint with Ishmael Ackah and Oluwafisayo Alabi), OPEC Energy Review , 2016 Article

Working Papers

Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins (joint with Dela-Dem Doe Fiankor and Woubet Kassa ) Working paper

Energising Africa: Current Landscape and Path to Renewable Energy Working paper

Carbon Taxation and Consumer Prices: Is there a Greenflation in South Africa? Working paper

International Climate Policy and Renewable Energy ConsumptionWorking paper

Chinese Development Aid and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Tanzania Working paper AidData Working paper

Permanent Working Papers

Oil Price Dynamics and Business Cycles in Nigeria: A Bayesian Time Varying Analysis.Working paper

Dynamics in Economic Diversification in Oil Producing African Countries-Implications for Policy Formulation. Working paper

Technical Report

Gender dynamics in cashew and shea value chains from Ghana and Burkina Faso (with Ingram, V. J., Yago-Quattara, E. L., Mogre, D., Wijnands, J., & van den Berg, J.)Report

Selected works in progress

Natural resource contracts in Africa: An empirical analysis (joint with Flavien Moreau and Antoine Arnoud )