Takaaki Masaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 81547 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Takaaki Masaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Takaaki |
| FAMILY NAME | Masaki |
| SIGNATURE | MASAKI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kanazawa University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1319-5666 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 175 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The French Invasion of the Upper Senegal River and Payment Issues, 1880–1900: Currency Transitions and the Role of the Treasury
Estimating the spillover economic effects of foreign conflict shocks: Evidence from Boko Haram
The welfare effects of mobile broadband internet: Evidence from Nigeria
The Management of the Bank of Senegal and the Formation of a Colonial Economy, 1840s-1901
In 1854, the Bank of Senegal was established using part of the compensation paid to former slave owners. The bank issued banknotes and provided modern financial services. Masaki analyzes the bank's management and interrogates the widely accepted argument that merchants from Bordeaux controlled the bank to marginalize African merchants, concluding that the bank largely provided equitable service to this colony. Additionally, Masaki shows that the …
The colonization of French West Africa and postal money transfer services, 1874-1955: Seeking the origin of the compte d’opération
En Afrique occidentale française (AOF), les bureaux de poste fournissaient des services de transfert de fonds à faible coût, même dans des régions éloignées. Cette recherche élucide tout d’abord la trajectoire du développement de ces services de transfert de fonds par voie postale entre la métropole et les colonies de l’AOF, ainsi qu’entre ces colonies. Ces transferts de fonds par voie postale se sont faits par l’intermédiaire des comptes du trés…
The colonization of French West Africa and postal money transfer services, 1874-1955: Seeking the origin of the compte d’opération
Mobile internet adoption in West Africa
Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum
This report sheds light on the interlocked long-term territorial development challenges and the recently realized systemic risks affecting the Lake Chad region. It summarizes the findings of seven technical papers, each investigating different aspects of the interlinked challenges faced by the region. These studies are accompanied by complementary research on labor market and geospatial socioeconomic trends, as well as by a review of the thin lit…
Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum
Violent conflicts present a formidable threat to regional economies. Throughout the world, border regions in many countries are possibly impacted by the cross-border economic effects of regional insurgencies in neighboring countries or national state failures, i.e. "bad neighbors". This raises two questions. First, what is the magnitude of the spill-over economic effects of foreign conflict and what are the channels through which they operate Sec…
Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalization
This study focuses on the global trade of guinée cloth mainly produced in French India and exported to French West Africa from 1826 to 1925. The article first re-examines the guinée cloth and its role in the western Sahel. Second, it argues that the guinée produced in the French factories established in French India was costly but of poor quality. Consequently, a similar type of cloth made in Europe began replacing the guinée in the Senegalese ma…
Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
The Export of Indian Guinée to Senegal via France: Inter-colonial Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century
The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania
Do intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)? There is already a well-established body of literature in public finance, which argues that intergovernmental grants “crowd out” local revenues. Most existing studies, however, explore the fiscal implications of intergovernmental transfers in high-income countries where sound fiscal systems are taken for granted. In this paper, I explore the impact of…
The Political Economy of Aid Allocation in Africa: Evidence from Zambia
This article utilizes a newly available dataset on the geographical distribution of development projects in Zambia to test whether electoral incentives shape aid allocation at the subnational level. Based on this dataset, it argues that when political elites have limited information to target distributive goods specifically to swing voters, they allocate more donor projects to districts where opposition to the incumbent is strong, as opposed to d…
Moving forward with time series analysis
In a recent Research and Politics article, we showed that for many types of time series data, concerns about spurious relationships can be overcome by following standard procedures associated with cointegration tests and the general error correction model (GECM). Matthew Lebo and Patrick Kraft (LK) incorrectly argue that our recommended approach will lead researchers to identify false (i.e., spurious) relationships. In this article, we show how L…
Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effect
Lagged explanatory variables are commonly used in political science in response to endogeneity concerns in observational data. There exist surprisingly few formal analyses or theoretical results, however, that establish whether lagged explanatory variables are effective in surmounting endogeneity concerns and, if so, under what conditions. We show that lagging explanatory variables as a response to endogeneity moves the channel through which endo…
Movements of Silver Coins between France and Senegal 1833-1925: Evidence from French Trade Statistics
Coups d’État and Foreign Aid
Japanese Contribution to Malaysian Economic Development: Lessons for Africa
This paper does not deal directly with the relations between Japan and Africa; instead it looks at Malaysia and Côte d'Ivoire with the objective of portraying Japanese contribution to Malaysian economic development and identifying some lessons that can be learnt by Africa from it. Both countries had a comparable macroeconomic outlook until 1980, with economies based on similar primary goods such as cocoa, coffee, palm oil, timber etc., which are …
Le syst^|^egrave;me du Franc CFA et les croissances ^|^eacute;conomiques des pays de l'Uemoa
Sur le continent Africain, il existe deux monnaies communes à 13 pays dont 12 étaient les anciennes colonies de la France. Il s'agit du Franc CFA (le Franc Communauté Financière Africaine quant en l'Afrique de l'Ouest et le Franc Coopération Financière en Afrique Centrale) qui est lié au Franc Français par la parité fixe. Ces deux zones ayant les monnaies patrimoniales ont progressivement envisagé le libre èchange et la libre circulation des fact…
Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effect
Lagged explanatory variables are commonly used in political science in response to endogeneity concerns in observational data. There exist surprisingly few formal analyses or theoretical results, however, that establish whether lagged explanatory variables are effective in surmounting endogeneity concerns and, if so, under what conditions. We show that lagging explanatory variables as a response to endogeneity moves the channel through which endo…
The Political Economy of Aid Allocation in Africa: Evidence from Zambia
This article utilizes a newly available dataset on the geographical distribution of development projects in Zambia to test whether electoral incentives shape aid allocation at the subnational level. Based on this dataset, it argues that when political elites have limited information to target distributive goods specifically to swing voters, they allocate more donor projects to districts where opposition to the incumbent is strong, as opposed to d…
The welfare effects of mobile broadband internet: Evidence from Nigeria
The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania
Do intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)? There is already a well-established body of literature in public finance, which argues that intergovernmental grants “crowd out” local revenues. Most existing studies, however, explore the fiscal implications of intergovernmental transfers in high-income countries where sound fiscal systems are taken for granted. In this paper, I explore the impact of…
Coups d’État and Foreign Aid
Mobile internet adoption in West Africa
Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
Moving forward with time series analysis
In a recent Research and Politics article, we showed that for many types of time series data, concerns about spurious relationships can be overcome by following standard procedures associated with cointegration tests and the general error correction model (GECM). Matthew Lebo and Patrick Kraft (LK) incorrectly argue that our recommended approach will lead researchers to identify false (i.e., spurious) relationships. In this article, we show how L…
Estimating the spillover economic effects of foreign conflict shocks: Evidence from Boko Haram
The Management of the Bank of Senegal and the Formation of a Colonial Economy, 1840s-1901
In 1854, the Bank of Senegal was established using part of the compensation paid to former slave owners. The bank issued banknotes and provided modern financial services. Masaki analyzes the bank's management and interrogates the widely accepted argument that merchants from Bordeaux controlled the bank to marginalize African merchants, concluding that the bank largely provided equitable service to this colony. Additionally, Masaki shows that the …
Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalization
This study focuses on the global trade of guinée cloth mainly produced in French India and exported to French West Africa from 1826 to 1925. The article first re-examines the guinée cloth and its role in the western Sahel. Second, it argues that the guinée produced in the French factories established in French India was costly but of poor quality. Consequently, a similar type of cloth made in Europe began replacing the guinée in the Senegalese ma…
Le syst^|^egrave;me du Franc CFA et les croissances ^|^eacute;conomiques des pays de l'Uemoa
Sur le continent Africain, il existe deux monnaies communes à 13 pays dont 12 étaient les anciennes colonies de la France. Il s'agit du Franc CFA (le Franc Communauté Financière Africaine quant en l'Afrique de l'Ouest et le Franc Coopération Financière en Afrique Centrale) qui est lié au Franc Français par la parité fixe. Ces deux zones ayant les monnaies patrimoniales ont progressivement envisagé le libre èchange et la libre circulation des fact…
Japanese Contribution to Malaysian Economic Development: Lessons for Africa
This paper does not deal directly with the relations between Japan and Africa; instead it looks at Malaysia and Côte d'Ivoire with the objective of portraying Japanese contribution to Malaysian economic development and identifying some lessons that can be learnt by Africa from it. Both countries had a comparable macroeconomic outlook until 1980, with economies based on similar primary goods such as cocoa, coffee, palm oil, timber etc., which are …
Coups d’État and Foreign Aid
Movements of Silver Coins between France and Senegal 1833-1925: Evidence from French Trade Statistics
Moving forward with time series analysis
In a recent Research and Politics article, we showed that for many types of time series data, concerns about spurious relationships can be overcome by following standard procedures associated with cointegration tests and the general error correction model (GECM). Matthew Lebo and Patrick Kraft (LK) incorrectly argue that our recommended approach will lead researchers to identify false (i.e., spurious) relationships. In this article, we show how L…
Lagged Explanatory Variables and the Estimation of Causal Effect
Lagged explanatory variables are commonly used in political science in response to endogeneity concerns in observational data. There exist surprisingly few formal analyses or theoretical results, however, that establish whether lagged explanatory variables are effective in surmounting endogeneity concerns and, if so, under what conditions. We show that lagging explanatory variables as a response to endogeneity moves the channel through which endo…
The Export of Indian Guinée to Senegal via France: Inter-colonial Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century
The impact of intergovernmental transfers on local revenue generation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania
Do intergovernmental transfers reduce revenues collected by local government authorities (LGAs)? There is already a well-established body of literature in public finance, which argues that intergovernmental grants “crowd out” local revenues. Most existing studies, however, explore the fiscal implications of intergovernmental transfers in high-income countries where sound fiscal systems are taken for granted. In this paper, I explore the impact of…
The Political Economy of Aid Allocation in Africa: Evidence from Zambia
This article utilizes a newly available dataset on the geographical distribution of development projects in Zambia to test whether electoral incentives shape aid allocation at the subnational level. Based on this dataset, it argues that when political elites have limited information to target distributive goods specifically to swing voters, they allocate more donor projects to districts where opposition to the incumbent is strong, as opposed to d…
Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum
This report sheds light on the interlocked long-term territorial development challenges and the recently realized systemic risks affecting the Lake Chad region. It summarizes the findings of seven technical papers, each investigating different aspects of the interlinked challenges faced by the region. These studies are accompanied by complementary research on labor market and geospatial socioeconomic trends, as well as by a review of the thin lit…
Lake Chad Regional Economic Memorandum
Violent conflicts present a formidable threat to regional economies. Throughout the world, border regions in many countries are possibly impacted by the cross-border economic effects of regional insurgencies in neighboring countries or national state failures, i.e. "bad neighbors". This raises two questions. First, what is the magnitude of the spill-over economic effects of foreign conflict and what are the channels through which they operate Sec…
Indian guinée cloth, West Africa, and the French colonial empire 1826–1925: Colonialism and imperialism as agents of globalization
This study focuses on the global trade of guinée cloth mainly produced in French India and exported to French West Africa from 1826 to 1925. The article first re-examines the guinée cloth and its role in the western Sahel. Second, it argues that the guinée produced in the French factories established in French India was costly but of poor quality. Consequently, a similar type of cloth made in Europe began replacing the guinée in the Senegalese ma…
Aid Management, Trust, and Development Policy Influence: New Evidence from a Survey of Public Sector Officials in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries
The colonization of French West Africa and postal money transfer services, 1874-1955: Seeking the origin of the compte d’opération
En Afrique occidentale française (AOF), les bureaux de poste fournissaient des services de transfert de fonds à faible coût, même dans des régions éloignées. Cette recherche élucide tout d’abord la trajectoire du développement de ces services de transfert de fonds par voie postale entre la métropole et les colonies de l’AOF, ainsi qu’entre ces colonies. Ces transferts de fonds par voie postale se sont faits par l’intermédiaire des comptes du trés…
The colonization of French West Africa and postal money transfer services, 1874-1955: Seeking the origin of the compte d’opération
Mobile internet adoption in West Africa
The Management of the Bank of Senegal and the Formation of a Colonial Economy, 1840s-1901
In 1854, the Bank of Senegal was established using part of the compensation paid to former slave owners. The bank issued banknotes and provided modern financial services. Masaki analyzes the bank's management and interrogates the widely accepted argument that merchants from Bordeaux controlled the bank to marginalize African merchants, concluding that the bank largely provided equitable service to this colony. Additionally, Masaki shows that the …
The welfare effects of mobile broadband internet: Evidence from Nigeria
The French Invasion of the Upper Senegal River and Payment Issues, 1880–1900: Currency Transitions and the Role of the Treasury
Estimating the spillover economic effects of foreign conflict shocks: Evidence from Boko Haram
Economics (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)