Dr. Elvis Avenyo


Affiliated researcher

Research group(s):
1. Economics of Knowledge and Innovation
4. Governance and institutions
5. Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Transitions
1. Economics of Knowledge and Innovation
8. Population, Development and Labour Economics

Elvis Korku Avenyo is an affiliated researcher at UNU-MERIT (Maastricht University) in the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Economics of Innovation and Governance from Maastricht University, and a collaborative Master of Philosophy (M Phil.) in Economics from the University of Cape Coast (Ghana) and the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC, Nairobi). His doctoral thesis focused on innovations and the performance of formal and informal enterprises in sub-Saharan Africa.




Selected publications by Elvis Avenyo


Articles (journal, professional, popular)
Avenyo, Elvis, Maty Konte & Pierre Mohnen, 2021, Product innovation and informal market competition in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 31: 605-637, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-020-00688-2, More information
Avenyo, Elvis, Maty Konte & Pierre Mohnen, 2019, The employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence, Research Policy, 48(9), More information


UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Avenyo, Elvis, John Nana Francois & Tatenda Zinyemba, 2020, COVID-19, Lockdowns, and Africa’s Informal Sector: Lessons from Ghana, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2020-028
Balde, Racky, Mohamed Boly & Elvis Avenyo, 2020, Labour market effects of COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa: An informality lens from Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2020-022
Avenyo, Elvis, Maty Konte & Pierre Mohnen, 2019, The employment impact of product innovations in sub-Saharan Africa: Firm-level evidence, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2019-019
Ndubuisi, Gideon & Elvis Avenyo, 2018, Estimating the effects of robotization on exports, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2018-046
Avenyo, Elvis, 2018, Informal sector innovation in Ghana: Data set and descriptive analysis, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2018-030
Al Raee, Mueid, Elvis Amoateng, Elvis Avenyo, Youssef Beshay, Mira Bierbaum, Charlotte Keijser & Rashmi Sinha, 2014, Millennium Development Goals: Tool or token of global social governance?, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2014-024


External working papers
Torres Mazzi, Caio, Gideon Ndubuisi & Elvis Avenyo, 2020, Exporters and global value chain participation: Firm-level evidence from South Africa, More information
Avenyo, Elvis & Gideon Ndubuisi, 2020, Coping During COVID-19: Family Businesses and Social Assistance in Nigeria, The COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent Government-imposed restrictions have altered the way of life around the globe. Using the newly “Nigeria Baseline COVID-19 National Longitudinal Phone Survey 2020”, this paper contributes to the nascent literature on the Economics of COVID-19 by examining the impact of changes in income and social assistance due to the pandemic on the coping strategies of family business owners. We find that family business owners who experienced a reduction in income and those that received social assistance due to the pandemic are likely to increase their coping level. We discuss the policy implications of these findings, More information


Theses
Avenyo, Elvis, 2018, Innovations and firm performance in sub-Saharan Africa: Empirical analyses, PhD dissertation Maastricht University / United Nations University


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