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Stephen Esaku

Cavendish University Uganda

Plot 1469

Nsambya Ggaba road

Kampala, Central P.O Box331

Uganda

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (19)

1.

Trade Liberalization and Productivity Growth: A Firm-Level Analysis from Kenya

Review of Economic Analysis
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 307 (246,050)

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Firm-Level, Productivity growth, Trade, Trade Liberalization

2.

Political Instability and Informality in Uganda: An Empirical Analysis

The European Journal of Applied Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 May 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 201 (378,726)
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shadow economy, governance, democracy, informal sector, political economy

3.

The Shadow Economy and Education in Uganda: Is There a Long-Run Relationship?

International Social Science Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Apr 2023
Stephen Esaku and Salmon Mugoda
Cavendish University Uganda and Makerere University
Downloads 86 (765,566)

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education; informal sector; shadow economy; tax evasion; time series models

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The Portrait of Uganda's Informal Sector: What Main Obstacles Do the Sector Face?

Cogent Economics & Finance, 8:1, 1843255, 2020
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Dec 2020
Cavendish University Uganda, Makerere University, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Makerere University
Downloads 76 (830,555)

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household production; production; informal economy; business taxes; underground economy; shadow economy

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Does Firm Age Affect Learning-by-Exporting? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 May 2021 Last Revised: 28 May 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 75 (837,727)
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Firm performance, Firm behavior, Productivity, Firm age, Firm growth, Learning-by-exporting, Trade

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Firm-Level Investment and Exporting: New Empirical Evidence From Ghana and Tanzania

International Economic Journal
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2020
Stephen Esaku and Waldo Krugell
Cavendish University Uganda and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 74 (844,901)
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firm-level, investment, exporters, firm behavior, firm performance

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Exports, Investment and Productivity Growth in Small Firms: A Firm-level Analysis from Tanzania and Ghana

Journal of African Business, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Dec 2020
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 72 (860,052)
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Firm; investment; export markets; firm performance; manufacturing firms

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Investments, Export Entry and Export Intensity in Small Manufacturing Firms

Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 29 May 2020
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 65 (916,100)
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Treatment effects model, Investments, Exports, Firm performance, SMEs

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Export Markets and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of African Business, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2020
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 55 (1,010,164)
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Firm-Level, Export Destinations, Exports, Productivity, Sub-Saharan Africa

10.

Institutionalized Democracy and the Shadow Economy in the Short- and Long-Run: Empirical Analysis from Uganda

Esaku, S. Institutionalized democracy and the shadow economy in the short- and long-run: empirical analysis from Uganda. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 9, 165 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01128-1
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Apr 2023
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 45 (1,121,190)

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informal economy, governance, institutional arrangements

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Which Firms Drive Employment Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya

Small Business Economics Journal (SBEJ)
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Jul 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 40 (1,183,237)
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Employment, Job creation, Firm age, Firm size, Manufacturing.

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Does the Shadow Economy Increase Income Inequality in the Short- and Long-Run? Empirical Evidence from Uganda

Esaku, Cogent Economics & Finance (2021), 9: 1912896 https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2021.1912896
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 13 Apr 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 35 (1,249,711)
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Reallocation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-Level Evidence From Kenyan Manufacturing Sector

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2020
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 16 Jul 2020
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 33 (1,277,121)
Citation 8

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employment; job creation; firm performance; entrepreneurship

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Is informality a barrier to economic growth in Uganda? Empirical analysis

Development Studies Research
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 11 May 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 31 (1,304,549)
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underground economy, fiscal policy, informal sector, shadow economy, economic growth

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Exports and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does ownership affect the outcome?

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Mar 2022
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 28 (1,345,526)

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Firm behavior, total factor productivity, foreign affiliates, trade, exports

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Does Firm Size Affect Learning-by-Exporting? Empirical Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa

Stephen Esaku | (2020) Does firm size affect learning-by-exporting? Empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa, Cogent Economics & Finance, 8:1, 1754150
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 May 2020
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
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firm behavior; productivity; firm size; firm growth; learning-by-exporting; trade

17.

Does Corruption Contribute to the Rise of the Shadow Economy? Empirical Evidence from Uganda

Cogent Economics & Finance
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 01 Jun 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 26 (1,372,601)
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Corruption, informal sector, tax evasion and avoidance, country-level studies, shadow economy

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Does Income Inequality Increase the Shadow Economy? Empirical Evidence from Uganda

Development Studies Research 2021, 8:1, 147-160, DOI:10.1080/21665095.2021.1939082
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Jun 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 25 (1,385,945)

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Income distribution, informal sector, income inequality, government spending, shadow economy, taxation

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The long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and trade openness in Uganda

Cogent Economics and Finance
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 03 Jun 2021
Stephen Esaku
Cavendish University Uganda
Downloads 19 (1,459,862)
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Globalization, informal sector, shadow economy, trade, trade openness