PUBLICATIONS

• Elizabeth Asiedu, James Freeman and Akwasi Nti-Addae, “Access to Credit by Small Businesses: How Relevant is Race, Ethnicity and Gender?” forthcoming, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.
• Christobel Asiedu, Elizabeth Asiedu and Francis Owusu, “The HIV/AIDS Risk Profiles of Adults in Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland and Zimbabwe,” Development Policy Review, 30 (3), 305-326. PDF
• Elizabeth Asiedu and Donald Lien, “Democracy, Foreign Direct Investment and Natural Resources,” Journal of International Economics, 84 (1), 99-111, 2011. PDF
• Christobel Asiedu, Elizabeth Asiedu and Francis Owusu, “Young Women’s Marital Status and HIV Risk in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe,” Journal of African Development, 12 (2), 33-46, 2010. PDF
• “Foreign Direct Investment, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa,” forthcoming in Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa, Includes papers by four Nobel Laureates in Economics, Oxford University Press, ed. by Ernest Aryeetey, Shantayanan Devarajan, Ravi Kanbur and Louis Kasekende.
• “Does Foreign Aid Mitigate the Adverse Effect of Expropriation Risk on Foreign Direct Investment?” (with Yi Jin and Boaz Nandwa), Journal of International Economics, 2009, 78 (2), 268-275. PDF.
• “The Effect of Corruption on Firm Level Investment: Evidence from Transition Countries, Latin America and the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa,” (with James Freeman), Review of Development Economics, 2009,13 (2),200-214. PDF
• “Is the World Flat? Differential Regulation of Domestic and Foreign Owned Firms,” (with H.S. Esfahani), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2008 (48), 389-4111. PDF
• “The Impact of Trade and Investment Liberalization on Foreign Direct Investment, Wages and Employment in Sub-Saharan Africa,” (with Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong), African Development Review, 2008, 20 (1), 49-66. PDF
• “On the Impact of Foreign Aid in Education on Growth: How Relevant is the Heterogeneity of Aid Flows and the Heterogeneity of Aid Recipients?” (with Boaz Nandwa), Review of World Economics 2007, 143 (4) 631-649. PDF
• “The Effect of Globalization on Firm Profit: Do Owners’ Race/Ethnicity Matter?” (with James Freeman), American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2007, 97 (2), 368-372. PDF
• “Foreign Direct Investment in Africa: The Role of Government Policy, Institutions and Political Instability,” World Economy, 2006, 29 (1), 63-77. PDF
• “Do Lack of Transparency and Enforcement Undermine International Risk-Sharing?” (with Yi Jin and Anne Villamil), Annals of Finance, 2006, 2 (2), 123-140. PDF
• “The Determinants of Employment of Affiliates of U.S. Multinational Enterprises in Africa,” Development Policy Review, 2004, 22 (4), 371-379. Paper is also published in The Role of MNCs in Alleviating Global Poverty, Edward Edgar Publishing, ed. by Subhash C. Jain and Sushil Vachani. PDF
• “Women’s Education, Labor Force Participation and Development in Africa,” 2005, (with Donald Lien) in Globalization, Liberalization and the Role of Women in African Development, African World Press/The Red Sea Press, Trenton, New Jersey, ed. by Sylvain Boko, Mina Baliamoune and Sitawa Kimuna.
• “Policy Reform and Foreign Direct Investment to Africa: Absolute Progress but Relative Decline,” Development Policy Review, 2004, 22 (1), 41-48. Paper is also published in The New Economic Partnership for Africa’s Development: Macroeconomics, Institutions and Poverty, International Monetary Fund, ed. by Saleh Nsouli. PDF
• “Debt Relief and Institutional Reform: A Focus on Heavily Indebted Poor Countries,” Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 2003, 43, 614-626.
• “Capital Controls and Foreign Direct Investment,” (with Donald Lien), World Development, 2003, 32 (3) 479-490. PDF
• “Imperfect Enforcement, Foreign Investment and Foreign Aid,” (with A. P. Villamil), Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2002, 6 (4), 476-495. PDF
• “On the Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment to Developing Countries: Is Africa Different?” World Development, 2002, 30 (1), 107-119. Paper ranked ninth among the most requested papers in 2002. As at December 2010, the paper is the 8th most downloaded paper since the inception of the Journal in 1973. PDF
• "Ownership Structure in Foreign Direct Investment Projects," (with H.S. Esfahani), Review of Economics and Statistics, November 2001, 83 (4), 647-662. PDF
• “Discount Factors and Thresholds: Foreign Investment when Enforcement is Imperfect,” (with A. P. Villamil), Macroeconomic Dynamics, January 2000, 4 (1), 1-21. PDF