“From Bilateral Trade to Centralized Markets: A Search Model for Commodity Exchanges in Africa,” with Pellegrina, H. S., (2021).

Nyarko, Y. (co-editor). The World Bank Economic Review. Number 3, Volume 31, (2017) Oxford University Press.

“Price Information, Inter-Village Networks, and 'Bargaining Spillovers': Experimental Evidence from Ghana,” with Hildebrandt, N., Romagnoli, G., and Soldani, E., (2020).

Keren Neza, Yaw Nyarko, Angela Orozco. “Digital Trading and Market Platforms: Ghana Case Study” in Madon T., Anderson R.J., Casaburi L., Lee K., Rezaee A., Gadgil A.J. (eds.), An Introduction to Development Engineering, Springer, 2021.

Wages of chagrin. (2016, April 07). The Economist. Retrieved from https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2016/04/07/wages-of-chagrin

Nyarko, Y. (edited by). (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018). Africa Tourism Monitor. Published by the African Development Bank.

Nyarko, Y. (co-producer). (2011). The State of Tourism in Africa. Joint with the World Bank and the Africa Travel Association.

Chakraborty, S., Jabbar, Z., Subramanian, L., and Nyarko, Y., (2016). Satellite Image Analytics, Land Change and Food Security. ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Data Science for Food, Energy and Water (DSFEW), Co-located with KDD 2016, San Francisco, USA.

Chakraborty, S., Dalton, S., Nyarko, Y., and Subramanian, L., (2012). Computing the Rate of Disappearance of Cropland Using Satellite Images. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Sustainability, Denmark.

Chartouni, C., & Nyarko, Y. (2018). Managed Labor Migration in Afghanistan: A Brief Review of the Academic Migration Literature. Washington, DC: World Bank. 

Naidu, S., Nyarko, Y., & Wang, S. Y. (2016). Monopsony Power in Migrant Labor Markets: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates. Journal of Political Economy, 124(6), 1735-1792. See slides for this paper

Nyarko, Y., Goldfrank, L., Ogedegbe, G., Soghoian, S., & Aikins, A. D. G. (2015). Preparing for Ebola Virus Disease in West African Countries Not Yet Affected: Perspectives from Ghanaian Health Professionals. Globalization and Health, 11(1), 7.

Nyarko, Y. “Mobility, Human Capital, Remittances, and Economic Transformation.” The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Volume 2: Policies and Practices., edited by Justin Lin et al., Oxford University Press, 480-493, 2015.

Gyimah-Brempong, K., & Nyarko, Y. (2015). Education, Internal Remittances and Safety Nets in Africa: Some Evidence. Journal of African Development, 17(1), 1-16.

Nyarko, Y. “Actors of Change in Africa: Human Capital and Markets.” Africa at a Fork in the Road: Taking Off or Disappointment Once Again?, edited by Ernesto Zedillo et al., Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, 355–363, 2015.

5. Minten, B., Tamru, S., Kuma, T., & Nyarko, Y. (2014). Structure and Performance of Ethiopia’s Coffee Export Sector. Intl Food Policy Res Inst., (66).

Nyarko, Y. (2013). The Economic Development Benefits of Human Mobility to Source Countries. Labor Mobility, an Enabler for Sustainable Development. Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) Conference, 49-67.

Chakraborty, S., Tong, T., Chen, J., Aman, A., Mufti, T., Nyarko, Y., & Subramanian, L. (2013). Experiences in Designing a Mobile GIS Mapping Tool for Rural Farmers in Ghana. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, ACM, p. 28.

Nyarko, Y. (2013). Sustaining High Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: Knowledge and the Structure of the Economy. Journal of African Economies, 22(1), i77-i101.

Nyarko, Y. “The Brain Drain in Africa.” Oxford Companion to Economics in Africa, edited by Ernesto Aryeetey et al., Oxford University Press, 2012.

Nyarko, Y. (2011). The Returns to the Brain Drain and Brain Circulation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Some computations using data from Ghana (No. w16813). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Nyarko, Y. (2011). Africa and the Indian Ocean: Trade, Investments, Global Partnerships, and Lessons. Journal of African Development, 13(1), 9-15.

Nyarko, Y., & Gyimah-Brempong, K. (2011). Social Safety Nets: The Role of Education, Remittances and Migration. European Report on Development.

Nyarko, Y. (2011). Rethinking the MDGS: Towards an Alternative Development Agenda Post-2015. Regional Workshop on Articulating Africa’s Position on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, UNECA.

Nyarko, Y., Gyimah-Brempong, K., & Peter-Hellwig, K. (2010). Review of African Household Survey Data on Social Safety-Nets and the Role of Education, Remittances and Migration. European Report on Development.

Nyarko, Y. (2010). The United Arab Emirates: Some Lessons in Economic Development, Working Paper (No. 2010/11). World Institute for Development Economics Research. Republished in Achieving Development Success: Strategies and Lessons from the Developing World, edited by Augustin K. Fosu, Oxford University Press, 2013.

Nyarko, Y. (2010). EU Policies and African Human Capital Development. European Report on Development.

Melitsko, S., & Nyarko, Y. (2010). Africa and the Arab Gulf: A New Economic and Political Alliance? Journal of African Development, 12(1), 10-19.

Nyarko, Y., & Easterly, W. “Is the Brain Drain Good for Africa?” Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems, and Policies., edited by Bhagwati et al., Oxford University Press, 2009.

Nyarko, Y. “The New Growth Theory.” Fundamental Economics- Volume I (EOLSS), edited by Majumdar et al., UNESCO, 2002.

Jovanovic, B., & Nyarko, Y. (1997). Stepping-stone mobility. Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, 46, 289-325.

Jovanovic, B., & Nyarko, Y. (1996). The Bayesian Foundations of Learning by Doing. Econometrica, 64(6), 1299-1310.

Jovanovic, B., & Nyarko, Y. “Research and Productivity.” Creation and Transfer of Knowledge, edited by Navaretti et al., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1995.

Jovanovic, B., & Nyarko, Y. (1995). A Bayesian Learning Model Fitted to a Variety of Empirical Learning Curves. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Microeconomics, (1), 247-305.

Jovanovic, B., & Nyarko, Y. (1995). The Transfer of Human Capital. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 19(5-7), 1033-1064.

Nyarko, Y., Schotter, A., & Sopher, B. (2006). On the Informational Content of Advice: A Theoretical and Experimental Study. Economic Theory, 29(2), 433-452.

Nyarko, Y., & Schotter, A. (2002). An Experimental Study of Belief Learning using Elicited Beliefs. Econometrica, 70(3), 971-1005. (See data for this paper).  

Nyarko, Y. (2010). Most Games Violate the Common Priors Doctrine. International Journal of Economic Theory, 6(1), 189-194.

Nyarko, Y. (1998). Bayesian Learning and Convergence to Nash Equilibria without Common Priors. Economic Theory, 11(3), 643-655.

Nyarko, Y. (1997). Convergence in Economic Models with Bayesian Hierarchies of Beliefs. Journal of Economic Theory, 74(2), 266-296.

Kiefer, N., & Nyarko, Y. “Savage-Bayesian Models of Economics.” Essays in learning and rationality in economics and games, Basil Blackwell, 40-62, 1995.

Nyarko, Y. (1994). On the Convexity of the Value Function in Bayesian Optimal Control Problems. Economic Theory, 4(2), 303-309.

Nyarko, Y., Woodford, M., & Yannelis, N. C. (1994). Bounded Rationality and Learning. Economic Theory, 4(6), 811-820.

Nyarko, Y. (1994). Bayesian Learning Leads to Correlated Equilibria in Normal Form Games. Economic Theory, 4(6), 821-841.

Nyarko, Y. (1991). On the Convergence of Bayesian Posterior Processes in Linear Economic Models, Counting Equations and Unknowns. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 15(4), 687-713.

Nyarko, Y. (1991). Learning in Mis-Specified Models and the Possibility of Cycles. Journal of Economic Theory, 55(2), 416-427.

Kiefer, N., & Nyarko, Y. “Optimal Bayesian Control of a Nonlinear Regression Process with Unknown Parameters.” Modeling and Control of Systems, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, edited by Austin Blaquiére, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 355-362, 1989.

Kiefer, N., & Nyarko, Y. (1989). Optimal Control of an Unknown Linear Process with Learning. International Economic Review, 30(3), 571-586.

Kiefer, N., & Nyarko, Y. “Control of a Linear Regression Process with Unknown Parameters.” Dynamic Econometric Modelling, edited by Barnett et al., Cambridge University Press, 105-120, 1988.

Nyarko, Y., & Olson, L. J. (1996). Optimal Growth with Unobservable Resources and Learning. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 29(3), 465-491.

Nyarko, Y., & Olson, L. J. (1994). Stochastic Growth When Utility Depends on Both Consumption and the Stock Level. Economic Theory, 4(5), 791-797.

Nyarko, Y., & Olson, L. J. (1991). Stochastic Dynamic Models with Stock-Dependent Rewards. Journal of Economic Theory, 55(1), 161-168.

Mitra, T., & Nyarko, Y. (1991). On the Existence of Optimal Processes in Non-Stationary Environments. Journal of Economics, 53(3), 245-270.

Majumdar, M., Mitra, T., & Nyarko, Y. “Dynamic Optimization under Uncertainty: Non-Convex Feasible Set.” Joan Robinson and Modern Economic Theory, edited by George Feiwel, Macmillan Press, 545-590, 1989.

Nyarko, Y. (1988). On Characterizing Optimality of Stochastic Competitive Processes. Journal of Economic Theory, 45(2), 316-329. Reprinted in Decentralization in Infinite Horizon Economies, edited by Mukul Majumdar, Westview Press, 100-113, 1992.

Ahmad, T., Reed-Sanchez, E., Zarinni, F., Afutu, A., Adjaho, K., Nyarko, Y., & Subramanian, L. (2018, June). GreenApps: A Platform For Cellular Edge Applications. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, (p. 45). ACM.

Nyarko, Y. (2018). Review of “The Economy of Ghana Sixty Years after Independence.” edited by Ernest Aryeetey and Ravi Kanbur, American Economic Association Journal of Economic Literature, 56(2), 697-701.

Joseph, T., Nyarko, Y., & Wang, S. Y. (2018). Asymmetric Information and Remittances: Evidence from Matched Administrative Data. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 10(2), 58-100.

Nyarko, Y. (2017). Transforming Rural Africa - Economics, Technology and Governance. Journal of African Development, 19(1), 160-167.

Arezki, R., El Aynaoui, K., Nyarko, Y., & Teal, F. (2016). Food price Volatility and its Consequences: Introduction. Special Issue, Oxford Economics Papers, 68(3), 655-664.

Nyarko, Y. (2016). Rural Agricultural Markets: A Case Study in Ghana. Working paper prepared for the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics).

Nyarko, Y. (2016). Commodity Exchanges in Africa: Transforming African Agriculture and Finance (Policy Brief). International Growth Center (London School of Economics).

Nyarko, Y., & Schotter, A. (2000). Comparing Learning Models with Ideal Micro & Experimental Data Sets. New York University.

Nyarko, Y. (1998). The Truth is in the Eye of the Beholder: or Equilibrium in Beliefs and Rational Learning in Games, Working Paper (No. 98-12). C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University.

Nyarko, Y. (1998). Learning, Quantal Response Equilibrium and Equilibrium in Beliefs, Working Paper (No. 01-03, revised 2001). C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University.

Nyarko, Y. (1993). Review of the book “Games, Strategies and Managers,” by John McMillan, Journal of Economic Literature, 31(2), 890-891.