Publications

Articles de revues à comité de lecture / 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, 1-26. (2024). [Rang HCERES : A]

2. An empirical analysis of the social contract in the Middle East and North Africa 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, 32(4), 1193-1243. (2024). [Rang HCERES : A]

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). [Rang HCERES : B] 

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

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). [Rang HCERES : B]

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

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. [Rang HCERES : A]

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). [Rang HCERES : B] 

Documents de travail / Working papers

• Can past informality impede registered firms' access to credit? Working Paper 2024-08, Center for Research in Economics and Management (CREM), University of Rennes, University of Caen, and CNRS. September 2024. Soumis / Submitted.

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

• 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.

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

Travaux en cours / Work in progress

• Mobile money adoption in informal firms, with Ablam E. Apeti and Eyah D. Edoh.

• Geopolitical risk and artificial intelligence technologies, with Ablam E. Apeti and Eva Szego.

• Local market functionality in developing countries, with Ablam E. Apeti and Ibrahima M. Diarra.

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

• Strategic autonomy and efficiency, with Didier Lebert, Richard Le Goff, and Eva Szego.

• Coups d'état and the informal economy, with Ablam E. Apeti, Assi Okara, and Kolotioloma I.H. Yéo.

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

• Has Morocco's return migration policy between 1980 and 2022 worked?, with Farid Gasmi, Samantha Metevier, and Paul Noumba Um.