This paper estimated the welfare outcomes of Togo's implementation of the common external tariff of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), with particular focus on gender issue. First, we detect the induced changes in prices following the transition to the ECOWAS CET. Second, we...

Most prior research on political patronage investigates its direct effect on power distribution and aggregate economic outputs, but less is known about the outcome of politicians’ patron-client networks at corporate level. This study investigates the causal impact of politicians’...