Samuel Obeng
Curriculum Vitae
Contact details
Telephone: +44(0) 2476528416
Email: Samuel.Obeng@warwick.ac.uk
Office: S1.117
Advice and feedback hours:
General: Tuesday 13:00-14:00 and 17:00-18:00 in room S1.117
EC331 RAE Group Only: Monday 17:00-18:00 in room S1.117
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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focused)
Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Research Interests
- Political Economy
- Public Finance
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- Globalisation
Teaching
Current:
- EC331: Research in Applied Economics (Co-Module Leader)
- EC204: Macroeconomics 2
- EC107: Economics 1
- EC108: Macroeconomics 1
- EC320: Economics of Public Policy
- EC959: MSc Economics Dissertation (Dissertation Supervisor)
Warwick Summer School:
Past:
- EC346: Research Methods in Economics
- EC961: Intro Mathematics and Statistics
- EC122: Statistical Techniques A
- MSc Finance and Economics Dissertation (Dissertation Supervisor)
Departmental/University Responsibilities
- UG and PGT Conference Support Grant
- Member of the MSc Admissions Team
- Warwick Economics-Africa Coordinator
- Member of the Warwick Africa Hub Steering Committee
Publications
Journal Articles
- , and (2024). Politics of Local Fiscal Discipline with Vertical Fiscal Imbalance. Economics & Politics, 1-20.
- Obeng, Samuel (2022). On the Determinants and Interrelationship of Components of Government Spending. Review of Development Economics, 26(4), 2414-2435.
- Anderson, Edward and Obeng, Samuel (2021). Globalisation and Government Spending: Evidence for the ‘hyper‐globalisation’ of the 1990s and 2000s. The World Economy, 44(5), 1144-1176.
- Obeng, Samuel (2021). Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size: Disentangling the Complexities. Journal of International Development, 33(6), 975-1004.
- Obeng, Samuel and Sakyi, Daniel (2017). Explaining the Growth of Government Spending in Ghana. The Journal of Developing Areas, 51(1), 103-128.
Working Papers:
- Rewarding Allegiance: Political Alignment and Fiscal Outcomes in Local Government, 2020. Warwick Economics Research Paper n.1316, also available as UEA School of Economics Working Paper 2020-05. (with Christa Brunnschweiler). (R&R Journal of African Economies). In the media: VoxDev PostLink opens in a new window
- Making a Case for Young Politicians in Kenya (with Sandra Maore). (Under Review).
- Sovereign Default and Public Debt (with Abrams Tagem, Ablam Estel and Maureen Sikali)
Work in Progress:
- Ethnic Monolithic and Modern State Capacity (with Rose Camille Vincent)
- Political Alignment and Public Service Provision (with Christa Brunnschweiler)
- Spillover effects of local governance (with Rose Camille Vincent)
Grants:
2023 - Co-Investigator (with Joy Malala and Beatrice Gobbo), Warwick Research Development Fund (RDF) Strategic Award, “Between Life and Debt: Minding the Dignity and Equity gap in the UK Consumer Credit Market”. Project details here
Random Talks:
- Panel Discussant at the National Budget Roundtable and Panel Discussion (NBR 2025), CEPDeR, Covenant University, Nigeria
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Panel Discussant at the Launch of 'UNCTAD-Warwick-REPOA Initiative for the Establishment of an Africa Inequality Learning Group' Link here
- Plenary Session at the European PPE Network Conference 2024