Wondemhunegn Ezezew Melesse
About
Grants and Awards
2016 Mega Research Project Award from the University of Gondar (Project title: “Micro and Small Scale Manufacturing Enterprises in Amhara Region, Ethiopia: Financial Frictions and Industrial Extension Services.” Oct.-Nov. 2014Visiting Scholar to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC, USA. 2012Post-graduate research scholarship from the Graduate School of Economics and Management (GSEM) coordinated by the Italian universities of Padua, Venice, and Verona. 2011Study grant from the Masters in Economics and Finance Program at Federico II University, Naples, Italy. 2006Undergraduate scholarship from the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs.
Supervision
Main Supervisor (Masters) 2014/15 Selected advisees: - Gizat, A., “Impact of Small Scale Irrigation on Household Income: the Case of Gondar Zuria District in Amhara Region, Ethiopia.” - Tlahun,C., “The Impact of Microcredit on the Livelihood of Small Scale Farmers:the Case of WogeraWoreda, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.” - Ambachew,W.,“Determinants of formal sources of credit loan repayment of small holder farmers in WogeraWoreda, Amara Region, Ethiopia.” 2015/16 Selected advisees: - Yohanes,W.,”Determinants of Export Earning Instability of Ethiopia.” - Asmiro,B., “The Impact of Financial Sector Development on Ethiopia’s Growth” - Amanuel,M., “Seasonal Out-migration in search of off-farm Income and its Impact on Farm Household Livelihood” 2016/17 Selected advisees: - Tadesse, W., “Household level determinants of income inequality in urban Ethiopia: the case of Woldiya town, Amhara region, Ethiopia” - Kassahun, G., “Trade for development: Determinants of growth among members of COMESA regional block” - Belayneh, G., “ Determinats of urban agricultural employment growth in Ethiopia: the case of Addis Ababa city” 2019/20 Selected advisees - Henok, E., “The relationship between exchange rate misalignment and growth in East African region: Panel Smooth Transition regression.” 2020/2021 Selected advisees - Sisaynew, M., “Health expenditure and health outcomes in selected African economies: Panel data evidence.” 2021/22 Selected advisees - Awoke, H., “Impact of urban expansion on surrounding rural settlement and livelihood strategies.”
Publication
ournal Articles 2022 (Co-author) Factors affecting the innovation ecosystem in public universities in Ethiopia, African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation, and Development (AcceptedMarch 2022). https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2022.2043809 2022 Re-Examining public debt and current account dynamics: SVAR evidence from Ethiopia, Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 110-134. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEAS-08-2020-0148 2021Assessing the macroeconomic effects of government consumption expenditure in Ethiopia, Ethiopian Journal of Business Management and Economics, Vol. 4 No. 1, pp.23-43. 2021 (Co-author) The role of public policy in debt level choices among small-scale manufacturing enterprises in Ethiopia: Conditional mixed process approach, Heliyon, Vol.7 No. 12, e08548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e08548 2019 Employment Growth and Financial Constraint: Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing SMEs, Journal of Social and Economic Development, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 329-352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40847-019-00082-0 2019 Business Cycles in Ethiopia under Alternative Monetary Policy Rules, African Journal of Economics and Management Studies, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 299-313. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJEMS-12-2018-0395 2019 Business Cycles and Financial Frictions under Money Growth Rule, Asian Journal of Economics and Empirical Research, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 16-26. http://dx.doi.org/10.20448/journal.501.2019.61.16.26 2014Exchange Rate Transmission into Sectoral Consumer Price Inflation in Ethiopia: SVAR Approach, Journal of Economic and Financial Modeling, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp.37-54.