Research Work and Conference Presentations
Publications
Bridging the Gender Credit Gap in Low-Income Countries: The Impact of Digital Finance (revise and resubmit with Emerging Markets Review)—with Abdul Latif Alhassan.
Financial Markets Development and the Microstructure of Corporate Bond Markets in Africa, African Finance Journal (2024)—with Kalu Ojah.
Blackouts and Green Energy Adoption: Evidence from Kenya, PEDL Research Note (2025)—with Jiayue Zhang and Yunyu Shu.
A Survey of the Microstructure of Corporate Bond Markets in Africa, PEDL Working Papers (2023)—with Kalu Ojah.
The Microstructure of Corporate Bond Markets in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Africa, PEDL Research Note (2021).
Ongoing Research Work
The Gender Agenda in Bank Credit Access: Implications for the Performance of Women-Owned and Women-Led Businesses in Kenya.
When Corruption is Gendered: Consequences for the Performance of Women-Owned and Women-Led SMEs in Africa.
Power Unreliability, Green Energy Adoption, and the Performance of Small Businesses: Evidence from Kenya—with Jiayue Zhang and Yunyu Shu.
The Importance of Market Microstructure in Africa’s Corporate Bond Markets Development—with Kalu Ojah.
Informality and VAT Registration Across the Supply Chain in Africa—with Jiayue Zhang and Evans Abakah.
Firms’ Debt Sourcing Decisions: State Versus Corporate Governance—with Kalu Ojah.
Op-Ed Pieces for Popular Media
Emerging key issues in Kenya’s new university funding model, Business Daily, 2nd October 2024.
Research Grants
PEDL pilot study grant to study informality and supply chain networks in Kenya, £ 5,000 (2024)—with Jiayue Zhang and Evans Abakah.
UCT conference travel grant ZAR 40,000 (2024)
PEDL Author publication cost (APC) grant for publication: US$ 4,700
PEDL collaborative grant to study green energy adoption and performance of small firms in Kenya, £ 40,000 (2023)—with Jiayue Zhang and Yunyu Shu.
PEDL pilot study grant for the study of the impact of digital finance on the gender credit gap, £ 5,000 (2023).
PEDL research grant for the study of the microstructure of corporate bond markets in Africa: £ 35,000 (2018)
Bradlow Foundation PhD research grant: ZAR 225,000
South African Banking Sector Education and Training Authority research grant: ZAR 100,000
Wits Postgraduate Merit Award: ZAR 101,000
Conference and Workshop Presentations
2nd Emerging Countries International Conference, Accra, Ghana, 2024. Presentation: Bridging the Gender Credit Gap in Low-Income Countries: The Impact of Digital Financial Inclusion, Dec 2024.
Finance and Entrepreneurship workshop PEDL, J-PAL Early-Stage Investor Summit (AESIS), Cape Town, South Africa (2023). Presentation (with Mariana Lopez, Anna Vitali, and Victoria Okafor): What is the role of networks for access to VC and success?
2nd African Philanthropy and Social Investment Conference, Dakar, Senegal, 2023. Presentation: The impact of corporate social investment on education in informal settlements in Kenya.
PEDL Young Scholars Matchmaking and Networking Workshop, Oxford University, UK, 2023. Presentation: Informality and supply chain networks in Kenya (with Jiayue Zhang and Evans Abakah).
Africa Finance Association Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2020. Presentation: Firms’ Debt Funds Sourcing Outcomes: The Role of the State Versus Corporate Governance.
Development Finance Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2019. Presentations: (i) Firms’ Debt decisions in Africa: The role of State Versus Corporate Governance (ii) the Microstructure of Corporate Bond Markets in Africa
Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) grantees conference, Oxford University, UK, 2018. Presentation: The Microstructure of Corporate Bond Markets in East Africa
Development Finance Conference, Durban, South Africa, 2018. Presentation: The Microstructure of Corporate Bond Markets in East Africa.
The Review of Economics and Finance (AREF) Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2018. Presentation: Corporate Governance, Country Governance, and Debt Structure of Listed Firms in Africa.
