CESifo Research Network Fellow

J. Atsu Amegashie

University of Guelph
Department of Economics
N1G 2W1, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Affiliated Research Network Area

Public Economics

Fields of Interest

  • Public Economics
  • Microeconomics
  • Game Theory

CESifo Working Papers

The Importance of Social Status in a Rent-Seeking Society

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2024
CESifo Working Paper No. 10894

On the Preferred Creditor Status of Multilateral Development Banks

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10521

Market Segregation in the Presence of Customer Discrimination

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10453

The Debt-to-GDP Ratio as a Tool for Debt Management: Not Good for LICs

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2023
CESifo Working Paper No. 10273

Advantageous Smallness in Contests

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2021
CESifo Working Paper No. 9419

Citations and Incentives in Academic Contests

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2019
CESifo Working Paper No. 7890

The Political Economy of Too-Big-To-Fail

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7403

Quantity-cum-Quality Contests

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2018
CESifo Working Paper No. 7110

Public Goods, Signaling, and Norms of Conscientious Leadership

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2016
CESifo Working Paper No. 6247

Wider Boundaries: The Welfare State and International Remittances

J. Atsu Amegashie, Michael Batu
CESifo, Munich, 2015
CESifo Working Paper No. 5456

Regime Spoiler or Regime Pawn: The Military and Distributional Conflict in Non-Democracies

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2014
CESifo Working Paper No. 4770

Sabotage in Contests: An Overview

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4422

Consumers' Complaints, the Nature of Corruption, and Social Welfare

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2013
CESifo Working Paper No. 4295

A Nested Contest: Tullock Meets the All-pay Auction

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2012
CESifo Working Paper No. 3976

An Empirical Inquiry into the Nature of Welfarism

J. Atsu Amegashie, Bazoumana Ouattara
CESifo, Munich, 2011
CESifo Working Paper No. 3318

Incomplete Property Rights and Overinvestment

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2711

Third-Party Intervention in Conflicts and the Indirect Samaritan's Dilemma

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2009
CESifo Working Paper No. 2695

Socially-Tolerable Discrimination

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2008
CESifo Working Paper No. 2292

The Paradoxes of Revenge in Conflicts

J. Atsu Amegashie, Marco Runkel
CESifo, Munich, 2008
CESifo Working Paper No. 2261

American Idol: Should it be a Singing Contest or a Popularity Contest?

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 2171

Moral Hazard and the Composition of Transfers: Theory with an Application to Foreign Aid

J. Atsu Amegashie, Bazoumana Ouattara, Eric Strobl
CESifo, Munich, 2007
CESifo Working Paper No. 1996

A Psychological Game with Interdependent Preference Types

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2006
CESifo Working Paper No. 1824

Intentions and Social Interactions

J. Atsu Amegashie
CESifo, Munich, 2006
CESifo Working Paper No. 1757

Sabotaging Potential Rivals

J. Atsu Amegashie, Marco Runkel
CESifo, Munich, 2005
CESifo Working Paper No. 1500