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.
This paper presents the design, implementation and deployment of GreenApps, a ground-up platform that enables off-grid, near off-line and highly available cellular applications in rural contexts. The GreenApps platform has been deployed in two rural regions in Kumawu, Ghana and Pearl Lagoon, Nicaragua and supports different community-centric applications.
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.
An independent central bank has the ability to set monetary policy free of political influence…
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.
Using new large-scale, administrative data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how migrants’ earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances.
Nyarko, Y. (2017). Transforming Rural Africa - Economics, Technology and Governance. Journal of African Development, 19(1), 160-167.
AFEA/ASSA Luncheon Speech
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.
Commodity prices are in the news. Oil prices have dropped 65% since June 2014…
Nyarko, Y. (2016). Rural Agricultural Markets: A Case Study in Ghana. Working paper prepared for the International Growth Centre (London School of Economics).
In this report we describe the start of a pilot baseline study of the soon to be established Ghana commodity exchange.
Nyarko, Y. (2016). Commodity Exchanges in Africa: Transforming African Agriculture and Finance (Policy Brief). International Growth Center (London School of Economics).
The Ghana government has recently decided to establish a commodities exchange and warehouse receipt system to improve the welfare of farmers.
Nyarko, Y., & Schotter, A. (2000). Comparing Learning Models with Ideal Micro & Experimental Data Sets. New York University.
This paper compares three learning models. The models compared are the Reinforcement Learning Model of Erev and Roth, the EWA model of Camerer and Ho and a Belief Learning model in which beliefs are elicited from subjects using a proper scoring rule…
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.
Games with incomplete information or randomness in the moves of others typically have many decision-theoretically equivalent formulations of the type space…
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.
This paper makes two points. First, the modeling used in the rational (Bayesian) learning literature can be generalized to handle the repeated shocks to preferences inherent and implicit in models of quantal response equilibria (QRE).
Nyarko, Y. (1993). Review of the book “Games, Strategies and Managers,” by John McMillan, Journal of Economic Literature, 31(2), 890-891.
Can the logic of game theory be presented as effectively in words as by mathematical models?