Work in Progress

• Foreign Aid and Power Play: Political Cycles in World Bank’s Procurement Allocation
  with Antoine Boucher and Lisa Chauvet – R&R at World Development

• Out of Sight, Out of Mind? Spatial Divide and Tax Attitudes in Africa
  with Lisa Chauvet, Siyavash Eslami, Laure Pasquier-Doumer – Submitted

• From Debt Rest to Growth Onset? Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Firm Performance in Developing Countries
  with Luc Jacolin and Quentin Dufresne

• Giving Birth in Times of Austerity: Fiscal Consolidation and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa
  with Hélène Ehrhart and Lisa Chauvet

Peer-reviewed publications

• Mitigating climate vulnerability: the crop diversification effect
  with Jeanne de Montalembert
  Ecological Economics, vol. 233 (2025)

• Less debt, more schooling? Evidence from cross-country micro data
  with Marine De Talancé and Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
  Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 50(1), pp. 153–173 (2022)

• Does debt relief irresistibly attract banks as honey attracts bees? Evidence from low-income countries’ debt relief programs
  with Marc Raffinot and Baptiste Venet
  International Review of Law and Economics, vol. 66, 105978 (2021)

• Taxation, infrastructure, and firm performance in developing countries
  with Lisa Chauvet
  Public Choice, vol. 187(3), pp. 455–480 (2021)

• Volatility widens inequality. Could aid and remittances help?
  with Lisa Chauvet, Sylviane Guillaumont Jeannenet, Patrick Guillaumont, Jules Sampawende-Tapsoba, Laurent Wagner
  Review of World Economics, vol. 155, pp. 71–104 (2019)

• Curse or blessing? Has the impact of debt relief lived up to expectations? A review of the effects of the multilateral debt relief initiatives for low-income countries
  with Marc Raffinot
  Journal of Development Studies, vol. 55(9), pp. 1867–1891 (2019)

• The carrot and the stick approach to debt relief: overcoming moral hazard
  Journal of African Economies, vol. 28(3), pp. 252–276 (2019)

• Africa: out of debt into fiscal space? Dynamic fiscal impact of the debt relief initiatives on African heavily indebted poor countries
  with Danny Cassimon, Marc Raffinot, Björn Van Campenhout
  International Economics, vol. 144, pp. 29–52 (2015)

Publications in French Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Quel bilan tirer des initiatives d’annulation de la dette des pays pauvres très endettés?
  Revue d’Économie Financière, vol. 141, pp. 225–239 (2021)

• Réductions de dette, aléa moral et ré-endettement des pays à faible revenu
  with Marc Raffinot
  Techniques Financières et Développement (2016) - (in French)

Book and book chapters

• Emerging powers, governance and development
  with Haley J. Swedlund
  in Handbook on Governance and Development, edited by Wil Hout and Jane Hutchison. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022

• La montée des émissions obligataires internationales des pays africains à faible revenu: une surprise rationnelle?
  with Marc Raffinot and Gregory Donnat
  in Finance, Banque, Microfinance: où va la richesse créée? Chicot Eboué (eds.), 1ère édition 2021, Larcier, pp. 327–350 (in French)

• La dette des pays en développement with Marc Raffinot
  La Découverte, Repères n° 136, Juillet 2019 - (in French)

Other Publications

• Le surendettement nouveau et les pays africains “frontière” face au mur de la dette with Marc Raffinot and Babacar Sene
  Document de Travail DIAL n°2024-03 (in French)

• L’efficacité de l’aide: quelles évolutions de la littérature depuis deux décennies? with Lisa Chauvet
  FERDI Document de travail P329, Juin 2023 - (in French)

• Développement économique et social - Aide publique au développement with Lisa Chauvet
  
  Encyclopédie Universalis (2014) - (in French)

• The Impact of the Debt Relief Initiatives with Marc Raffinot
  Dialogue, N°37, DIAL (2013) - (in French)

Refereeing

World Development, Public Choice, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of African Economies, Revue d'Economie du Développement, Revue Economique, Revue d'Economie Politique, International Economics, European Journal of Comparative Economics, European Journal of Development Research, Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice, Revue Internationale des Etudes du Développement, International Journal of Financial Studies, PLOS ONE, Journal of Poverty, Journal of Economics and International Finance