Between altruism and self-aggrandisement: Transparency, accountability and politics in Ghana's oil and gas sector

Ackah, I.; Lartey, Abraham; Acheampong, T.; Kyem, E.; Ketemepi, G.

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2020.101536

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The evolution and implications of national energy cost shares (2025)
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Agnolucci, P., De Lipsis, V., Gencer, D., Lartey, A., & Grubb, M. (online). The evolution and implications of national energy cost shares. Energy Economics, Article 108616. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2025.108616

Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins (2025)
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Fiankor, D.-D. D., Woubet, K., & Lartey, A. (2024). Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins. Washington, DC

This paper empirically examines how standards and technical regulations affect export margins in three African countries at the firm level. The approach involves combining detailed customs transaction data at the firm-product level with bilateral inf... Read More about Trade Barriers or Catalysts? Non-Tariff Measures and Firm-Level Trade Margins.

Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues (2024)
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Lartey, A. (2024). Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues. Journal of Government and Economics, 15, Article 100119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jge.2024.100119

It has often been argued that countries that produce natural resources mobilize less non-resource tax revenues than other countries. In this paper, we exploit the exogenous variation in the timing of giant oilfield discoveries to estimate the causal... Read More about Government responses to oilfield discoveries: Impact of resource wealth on non-resource tax revenues.

Agri-food importing firms amid a global health crisis (2023)
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Doe Fiankor, D.-D., Lartey, A., & Ritzel, C. (2023). Agri-food importing firms amid a global health crisis. Food Policy, 119, Article 102507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102507

This paper exploits daily customs transaction data on the universe of Swiss agri-food importing firms to assess the response of firms to a global shock. Estimating a linear model that regresses product-level import margins on daily COVID19 shocks and... Read More about Agri-food importing firms amid a global health crisis.

Between altruism and self-aggrandisement: Transparency, accountability and politics in Ghana's oil and gas sector (2020)
Journal Article
Ackah, I., Lartey, A., Acheampong, T., Kyem, E., & Ketemepi, G. (2020). Between altruism and self-aggrandisement: Transparency, accountability and politics in Ghana's oil and gas sector. Energy Research & Social Science, 68, Article 101536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101536

Effective governance of oil and gas resources has been identified as the thread that divides altruistic and self-aggrandising behaviour in petroleum producing countries. Indeed, the choice of governance attitude has consequences on how oil and gas re... Read More about Between altruism and self-aggrandisement: Transparency, accountability and politics in Ghana's oil and gas sector.