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yumulisa2001@gmail.com
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+250 789571193
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Published Papers :
- Trade Integration and Business Cycle Synchronization among East African Community Countries https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/R6WJCYGM9CRHNQJSIXKB/full?target=10.1080/08853908.2022.2128945
- Commonalities in the Movements of Inflation Rates among Countries in the East African Community https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2021.1997738
- Business cycle synchronicity within ECOWAS: The Eco-core and the Eco-periphery https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3708812
- The Prospects for the East African Monetary Union: An Empirical Analysis https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1422325/FULLTEXT01.pdf
- Estimation of the East African Community's trade benefits from promoting intra-regional trade
- Business Cycle Synchronization and Core-Periphery Patterns in the East African Community: A Wavelet Approach https://www.e-jei.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.11130/jei.2018.33.4.629
- Effects of a Common Currency on Intra-regional Trade in Africa: Perspectives on the East African Monetary Union https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-30432-8_5
Brief profile:
Dr. Yvonne Umulisa is a lecturer at the Department of Economics_the University of Rwanda. She holds a master’s degree in International and Development Economics from” Académie Universitaire Louvain”, Belgium, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Jönköping University, Sweden. Inspired by the theory of optimum currency areas, her research has so far focused on the Economics of the East African Community Monetary Union (EAMU), to generate empirical evidence to inform key decision-makers about the future development of the EAMU. Dr. Yvonne Umulisa also makes a big contribution to the development and implementation of different internally and externally funded research projects.
Research Area:
Applied Macroeconomics, Monetary economics, International Economics