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Overview

Stephen Ellis was affiliated with the African Studies Centre in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focused on the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular emphasis on banking stability, regulation, and efficiency. Throughout their career, Ellis contributed to topics including Islamic Finance and Banking Studies, Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Economic theories and models, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy, as well as Racial and Ethnic Identity Research.

Ellis authored papers published in various academic journals over recent years. These included:

  • The Impact of Non-Interest Income on Commercial Bank Profitability in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, 2024, Journal of risk and financial management
  • Abstract B092: 'We've got to go to the doctor and we're scared to death': Community members perspectives on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in healthcare settings, 2024, Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • Central Bank Digital Currencies: Experimental Evidence of Deposit Conversion, 2024, The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
  • The Death of a Condominium: The Next Frontier for Real Estate Markets, 2025, Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education
  • Community members' perspectives on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in health-care settings, 2025, JNCI Monographs

Frequent publication venues for Ellis included:

  • Journal of risk and financial management
  • Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention
  • The B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
  • Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education
  • JNCI Monographs

Their frequent co-authors were Ariel Washington, Ali Fakih, Riham Ayoub, Emma Noble, and Susan Musto. Each of these collaborators worked with Ellis on at least two occasions.

Ellis's work spanned several subfields, integrating diverse aspects of social sciences and finance. These subfields included Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Accounting, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Social Psychology.

Best Publications

  • The Criminalization of the State in Africa

    Jean-François Bayart;Stephen Ellis;Béatrice Hibou

  • Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa

    Stephen Ellis;Gerrie ter Haar

  • The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War

    Stephen Ellis

  • Comrades Against Apartheid: The ANC and the South African Communist Party in Exile

    Stephen Ellis;Tsepo Sechaba

  • Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Stephen Ellis;Gerrie ter Haar

  • The Role of Religion in Development: Towards a New Relationship between the European Union and Africa

    Gerrie Ter Haar;Stephen Ellis

  • West Africa's international drug trade

    Stephen Ellis

  • TUNING IN TO PAVEMENT RADIO

    Stephen Ellis

  • Of elephants and men: politics and nature conservation in South Africa

    Stephen Ellis

  • WRITING HISTORIES OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICA

    Stephen Ellis

  • External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990

    Stephen Ellis

  • Religion and politics: taking African epistemologies seriously

    Stephen Ellis;Gerrie ter Haar

  • Liberia 1989-1994 : a study of ethnic and spiritual violence

    Stephen Ellis

  • The historical significance of South Africa's third force

    Stephen Ellis

  • Madagascar: A Short History

    Solofo Randrianja;Stephen Ellis

  • How to Rebuild Africa

    Stephen Ellis

  • Research On Sub-Saharan Africa's Unrecorded International Trade: Some Methodological and Conceptual Problems*

    Stephen Ellis;Janet MacGaffey

  • Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa

    Stephen Ellis

  • Briefing: the pan-Sahel initiative

    Stephen Ellis

  • Africa and International Corruption: The Strange Case of South Africa and Seychelles

    Stephen Ellis

  • Greed and Grievance: Economic Agendas in Civil Wars

    Stephen Ellis;Mats Berdal;David M. Malone

  • The Criminalization of the State in Africa

    Ali A. Abdi;Jean-Francois Bayart;Stephen Ellis;Beatrice Hibou

  • The Criminalization of the State in Africa

    Eghosa E Osaghae;Jean-Francois Bayart;Stephen Ellis;Beatrice Hibou

  • The Mask of Anarchy: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War

    Esteban G. Sacco;Stephen Ellis

  • Worlds of Power

    Gerrie Ter Haar;Stephen Ellis

Frequent Co-Authors

Gail M. Gerhart
Gail M. Gerhart Columbia University
Deborah Fahy Bryceson
Deborah Fahy Bryceson University of Edinburgh
Eghosa E. Osaghae
Eghosa E. Osaghae Nigerian Institute of International Affairs

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