Agricultural commodities

My dissertation studies the political impacts of media and information technologies in American history. The first chapter employs novel data to examine the electric telegraph's impacts on political participation and news coverage in the mid-19th century America. I use proximity…

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the global financial system and caused great turmoil. Facing unprecedented risks in the markets, people have increasing needs to find a safe haven for their investments. Given that the nature of this crisis is a combination of multiple pr…

Member countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are determined to form a West African Monetary Zone (WAMZ) by 2004 whereby a single currency and a common monetary policy would be adopted as an attempt to promote regional trade. A West and Central Afric…