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Bensassi, S & Raz, AF 2025, 'Combating trade-related fraud: do the Financial Action Task Force recommendations bite?', Economica, vol. 92, no. 365, pp. 322-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12561
Cheng, K, Bensassi, S, Elliott, RJR & Strobl, E 2024, 'Constructing a county-level environmental events dataset for China during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1911)', Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History. https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2024.2369234
Asamane, EA, Quinn, L, Watson, SI, Lilford, RJ, Hemming, K, Sidibe, C, Rego, RT, Bensassi, S, Diarra, Y, Diop, S, Gautam, OP, Islam, MS, Jackson, L, Jolly, K, Kayentao, K, Koita, O, Manjang, B, Tebbs, S, Gale, N, Griffiths, PL, Cairncross, S, Toure, O & Manaseki-Holland, S 2023, 'Protocol for a parallel group, two-arm, superiority cluster randomised trial to evaluate a community-level complementary-food safety and hygiene and nutrition intervention in Mali: the MaaCiwara study (version 1.3; 10 November 2022)', Trials, vol. 24, no. 1, 68. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06984-5
Bensassi, S & Jabbour, L 2021, 'Beyond experience and capital. Is there a return to return migration?', Journal of Development Studies, pp. 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.1988076
Siu, J, Jackson, LJ, Bensassi, S, Manjang, B & Manaseki-Holland, S 2021, 'Cost-effectiveness of a weaning food safety and hygiene programme in rural Gambia', Tropical Medicine and International Health, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 1624-1633. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13691
Arribas, I, Bensassi, S & Tortosa-Ausina, E 2020, 'Trade integration in the European Union: Openness, interconnectedness, and distance', North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 52, 101167. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2020.101167
Bensassi, S & Jarreau, J 2019, 'Price discrimination in bribe payments: evidence from informal cross-border trade in West Africa', World Development, vol. 122, pp. 462-480. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.05.023
Bensassi, S, Jarreau, J & Mitaritonna, C 2018, 'Regional integration and informal trade in Africa: Evidence from Benin's borders', Journal of African Economies, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 89-118. https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejy016
Bensassi, S, Brockmeyer, A, Pellerin, M & Raballand, G 2017, 'Algeria–Mali trade: the normality of informality', Middle East Development Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 161-183. https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2017.1353767
Bensassi, S, Mohan, P & Strobl, E 2017, 'A Storm in a Teacup? Hurricanes and Sugar Prices in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century', Weather, Climate, and Society, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 753-768. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-17-0015.1
Bensassi, S, Stroeve, JC, Martínez-Zarzoso, I & Barrett, AP 2016, 'Melting ice, growing trade?', Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, vol. 4, 000107. https://doi.org/10.12952/journal.elementa.000107
Bensassi, S, Márquez-Ramos, L, Martínez-Zarzoso, I & Suárez-Burguet, C 2015, 'Relationship between logistics infrastructure and trade: Evidence from Spanish regional exports', Transportation Research. Part A: Policy & Practice: an international journal, vol. 72, pp. 47-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2014.11.007
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Bensassi, S & Siu, J 2021, Quantifying missing and hidden trade: an economic perspective. in M Gallien & F Weigand (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. 1st Edition edn, Routledge International Handbooks, Routledge, pp. 61-76. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003043645-5
Preprint
Watson, SI, Asamane, EA, Lilford, RJ, Hemming, K, Sidibe, C, Rego, RT, Bensassi, S, Diarra, A, Diarra, Y, Diop, S, Gautam, OP, Islam, MS, Jackson, L, Jolly, K, Kayentao, K, Koita, O, Manjang, B, Tebbs, S, Gale, N, Griffiths, P, Cairncross, S, Toure, O & Manaseki-Holland, S 2022 'Protocol for a cluster randomised trial to evaluate a community-level complementary-food safety and hygiene and nutrition intervention in Mali: The MaaCiwara study (version 1.2; 31 March 2022)' Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1518816/v1
Watson, S, Asamane, E, Lilford, R, Hemming, K, Sidibe, C, Rego, R, Bensassi, S, Diarra, A, Gautam, OP, Islam, MS, Jackson, L, Jolly, K, Kayentao, K, Koita, O, Manjang, B, Tebbs, S, Griffiths, P, Cairncross, S, Toure, O & Manaseki-Holland, S 2021 'Protocol for a cluster randomised trial to evaluate a community-level complementary-food safety and hygiene and nutrition intervention in Mali: the MaaCiwara study' medRxiv, pp. 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.15.21267512
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