Christopher Adam
Recent Research Papers
Papers
are grouped under the following headings:
C.S.Adam, D.Bevan, D.Gollin and B.Mkenda
(2012) Transport Costs, Food Markets and
Structural Transformation: The Case of Tanzania (first draft mimeo)
C.S.Adam, P.Kessy, C.Kombe and S.O’Connell (2012) Exchange
Rate Arrangements in the Transition to East African Monetary Union (IGC Working Paper
12/0458 and CSAE Working Paper 2012-07)
C.S.Adam, D.Kwimbere, W.Mbowe and S.O’Connell (2012) Food
Prices and Inflation in Tanzania (IGC Working Paper
12/0459 )
P.Montiel C.S.Adam,
W.Mbowe and S.O’Connell
(2012) Financial Architecture and The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Tanzania (IGC Working Paper 12/0343 and CSAE
Working Paper 2012-07)
C.S.Adam, P.Kessy, J.Nyella and S.O’Connell (2011) The Demand for Money
in Tanzania (IGC Working Paper 11/0336)
C.S.Adam and P.Kessy (2011) Assessing the stability and predictability of the money multiplier in
the EAC: the case of Tanzania (IGC Working
Paper 11/0332).
C.S.Adam and L.Crawfurd
(2012) Exchange Rate Options for South Sudan (mimeo
prepared for DFID-Sudan)
C.S.Adam (2009) The Conduct of
Monetary Policy in Uganda: An Assessment (mimeo
prepared for EPRC and Bank of Uganda)
C.S.Adam (2008) Factors in the Choice of Monetary Policy
Regime (seminar
paper, Central Bank of Nigeria Symposium on Monetary Policy and Inflation
Targeting, Abuja, Jan 19, 2008).
C.S.Adam and
A.Simpasa (2011) “Copper Mining in Zambia: from
collapse to recovery” in P.Collier and A.J.Venables (eds)
Plundered Nations? Successes and Failures
in Natural Resource Extraction.(Palgrave
Macmillan).(full working paper version Oxcarre Working Paper 36)
C.S.Adam (2011)
“Exchange Rate Policy” in Aryeetey, E., S.Devarajan, R.Kanbur and L.Kasekende (eds)
The African Companion to Economics (Oxford
University Press). (pre-proof draft)
C.S.Adam,
P.Collier and N.Ndung’u
(2010) Kenya: Policies for
Prosperity Oxford University Press (introduction)
C.S.Adam,
B.O.Maturu, N.Ndung’u and S.O’Connell (2010) “Building a Kenyan Monetary Regime for
the 21st Century” in C.S.Adam, P.Collier and N.Ndung’u (eds) Kenya: Policies for Prosperity Oxford University Press. (pre-proof draft)
E.Buffie, S.O’Connell
and C.S.Adam (2010) “Fiscal Inertia, Donor
Credibility, and the Monetary Management of Aid Surges” Journal of Development Economics 93(2), 287-298.
C.S.Adam and A.Musonda (2010) “The Economics of
the Copper Price Boom in Zambia” in A. Frazer and N.Larmer
(eds) Zambia,
Mining and Neoliberalism (London: Palgrave
MacMillan).
C.S.Adam, S.O’Connell
and E.Buffie (2009) “Aid Volatility, Monetary Policy
Rules and the Capital Account in African Economies” in G.Hammond,
R.Kanbur and E.Prasad (eds) Monetary Policy
Frameworks for Emerging Markets (London, Edward Elgar).
C.S.Adam, S.O’Connell,
E.Buffie and C.Pattillo
(2009) “Monetary Policy Rules for Managing Aid Surges in Africa”, Review of Development Economics vol 13(3), 464-490. An extended version of this paper is
published as IMF Working Paper, 07/180.
E.Buffie, C.S.Adam, S.A. O’Connell and C.
Pattillo (2008), “Riding the Wave: Monetary Responses to Aid Surges in
Low-Income Countries” European Economic
Review vol 52(8) pp 1378-1395.
C.S.Adam, Paul
Collier and Victor Davies (2008), “Post-Conflict Monetary Reconstruction”, World Bank Economic Review vol 22(1) pp 87-112
C.S.Adam
and B.Goderis (2007) “Monetary Policy and Oil Price Surges
in Nigeria”, in P.Collier, Charles C Soludo and Catherine Pattillo (eds),
Economic Policies for a Prosperous
Nigeria, (London ,Palgrave Macmillan).(pre-proof version)
S.O’Connell,
C.S.Adam, E.Buffie and C.Pattillo (2007), “Managing External Volatility: Central Bank Options in Low-Income
Countries”, lead paper in Nicoletta Batini (ed), Monetary Policy in Emerging Markets and Other
Developing Countries, (New York, Nova Publishers, New York). (pre-proof
version)
C.S.Adam and
D.L.Bevan (2006), “Aid and the Supply Side: Public
Investment, Export Performance and the Dutch Disease in Low-Income Countries”, World Bank Economic Review, volume 20, pp 261-290. [GAMS files
available here]
C.S.Adam
(2006), “Exogenous Inflows and Real Exchange Rates: Theoretical Quirk or
Empirical Reality?” in Peter Isard, Leslie Lipschitz, Alexandros Mourmouras and Boriana Yontcheva (eds) The
Macroeconomic Management of Foreign Aid: Opportunities and Pitfalls, (Washington
DC: International Monetary Fund).(pre-proof draft)
C.S.Adam and D.L. Bevan (2005), “Fiscal Deficits and Growth in Developing
Countries”, Journal of Public Economics, vol 89 pp 571-597.
C.S.Adam,
E. Buffie, S.A. O’Connell and C. Pattillo (2004),
“Exchange Rate Policy and Management of Official and Private Capital Flows in
Africa”, IMF
Staff Papers (Vol 51, 2004)
C.S.Adam and S.A.
O’Connell (2004), “Aid versus Trade Revisited: Donor and Recipient Policies in the
Presence of Learning-by-Doing”, Economic
Journal, volume 114, pp150-173.
C.S.Adam, D.L. Bevan, and G.Chambas (2001),
“Exchange Rate Regimes and Revenue Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Journal of Development Economics, vol 64(2) pp
173-213.
C.S.Adam and S.A. O’Connell (1999),
“Aid, Taxation and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Economics and Politics, vol 11(3) pp 225-253.
C.S.Adam (2012)
“Coping with adversity: the macroeconomic management of natural disasters” Environmental
Science and Policy
C.S.Adam and
D.Vines (2009) “Remaking macroeconomic policy after
the global financial crisis: a balance-sheet approach” Oxford Review of Economic Policy 25(4) pp 507-552.
C.S.Adam,
P.Collier and D.Vines
(2010) “Small Developing Countries in the International Monetary System” in P.Subacchi and J.Driffil (eds)
Beyond the
Dollar: Rethinking the International Monetary System (Chatham House:
Royal Institute of International Affairs.
C.S.Adam and
D. Cobham (2009) “Using Real-Time Output Gaps to Examine Past and Future Policy
Choices” National Institute Economic
Review No. 210, October, pp1-13.
C.S.Adam and
S. Dercon (2009) “The Assessment: The Political Economy of Development” Oxford Review of Economic Policy
25(2) pp 1- 21
C.S. Adam and D. Cobham (2009) “Alternative exchange rate regimes for MENA
countries: gravity model estimates of the trade effects” in D.Cobham
and G.Dibeh (eds)
Monetary
Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa (London:
Routledge).
C.S.Adam and D.P.Cobham (2007) “Exchange Rate
Regimes and Trade”, The Manchester School
vol 75 (s1) 44-63.
B.McPake, K.G.Hanson,
and C.S.Adam
(2007), “Two-tier charging strategies in public hospitals: implications for
intra-hospital resource allocation and equity of access to hospital services”, Journal of Health Economics, vol 26, pp447-462.
C.S.Adam, D.P. Cobham, and E.Girardin. (2005), “External influences and institutional constraints on UK
monetary policy, 1985-2003”. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics 67(4).