Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

1. Firms' sustainable and responsible innovation in Nigeria: Does informality play a role?, with Farid Gasmi and Maruf Sanni, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change. (2024). Forthcoming.

2. An empirical analysis of the social contract in the MENA region and the role of digitalization in its transformation, with Farid Gasmi, Paul Noumba Um, and Pedro Rojas Milla, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 1-51. (2024).

3. Explaining process innovation in developing countries: The role of a firm's status, formal or informal, Managerial and Decision Economics, 44(6), 3077-3085. (2023). 

4. Competing against 'invisibles': the effect of competition from informal firms on formal firms' R&D, Eurasian Business Review, 13(1), 87-117. (2023). 

5. Separating innovation short-run and long-run technical efficiencies: Evidence from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), European Journal of Comparative Economics, 19(1), 103-141. (2022). 

6. Gouvernance et autonomie stratégique par l'innovation : Une étude exploratoire, with Eva Szego, Economie Appliquée, 1(3), 83-113. (2022). English Abstract. 

7. Innovation, ancienneté du manager et implication des employés dans la prise de décision au sein des entreprises d'un pays en développement, Revue Economique, 73(5), 781-810. (2022). English Abstract. 

8. Determinants of employees' participation in decision-making in developing countries: Does a firm's formal versus informal status matter?, Managerial and Decision Economics, 43(5), 1501-1514. (2022). 

Working Papers

• Shadow economy, shaky ground: Firm informality's grip on employment stability in Côte d'Ivoire, with Hermann Ndoya and Kolotioloma I.H. Yéo. Submitted to World Development.

• The privatization-corruption relationship is nonlinear: Evidence from 1985-2022 data on telecommunications in 103 countries, with Isacco Bertè, Louise Demoury, Farid Gasmi, Niklas Patzig, and Laura Recuero Virto. TSE Working Paper no. 1523, Toulouse School of Economics. April 2024.

• Evaluating the integration of artificial intelligence technologies in defense activities and the effect of national innovation system performance on its enhancement, with Eva Szego. MPRA Paper no. 120617. April 2024. Submitted to Research Policy. 

• Can innovation reduce the size of the informal economy? Evidence from panel data, with Kolotioloma I.H. Yéo. MPRA Paper no. 120084. January 2024. Submitted to Research Policy. 

Work in Progress

• Local market functionality and poverty in developing countries, with Nakita Aboya and Ibrahima M. Diarra.

• Blockchain technology diffusion in developing countries, with José Aurazo and Farid Gasmi.

• The strategic autonomy in defense activities: Efficiency analysis using a stochastic production frontier, with Didier Lebert, Richard Le Goff, and Eva Szego.

• Coups d'état and the informal economy, with Hermann Ndoya and Kolotioloma I.H. Yéo.

• The social contract in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Mathieu Cloutier, Farid Gasmi, Samantha Metevier, and Paul Noumba Um.

• Turning brain drain into brain gain: Evidence from Morocco, with Farid Gasmi, Samantha Metevier, and Paul Noumba Um.

• Social norms and female entrepreneurship in developing countries, with Oka D. Kouadio, Edano C.G.R. Niamien, and Salmata Ouedraogo.

• What drives mobile money adoption in Côte d'Ivoire? Evidence from survey data, with Alban A.E. Ahouré and Farid Gasmi.