Yaya Sissoko

Yaya Sissoko has been a member of the Department of Finance and Economics since 2005. Sissoko received the People Award (2008) from the African American Cultural Center and served as a member of the board of directors of AACC for 10 years. He is the faculty advisor for both the Pan-African Student Association and the IUP Soccer Club. He is a member of both the Pan-African Studies and the Asian Studies programs. His fields of interest are economic development, monetary economics, international economics, managerial economics, environmental economics, and time series econometrics. Sissoko is a member of the editorial board of the African Journal of Accounting, Economics, Finance and Banking Research, the editorial board of the Pennsylvania Economic Review, the chair of the Pennsylvania Economic Association Best Undergraduate Paper Contest, and an ex-officio member of the PEA Board of Directors. Sissoko has published three-chapter books in the “Book Series of the International Finance Review and the Edwin Mellen Press” and more than a dozen articles in refereed journals such as Energy of Economics, International Advances in Economic Research, Review of Regional Studies, African Finance Journal, International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research, Economic Systems, and the Pennsylvania Economic Review.

Publications

Effects of Public Capital Investments on the Productivity of the United States, 1992-2022
Effects of Public Capital Investments on the Productivity of the United States, 1992-2022
Brian Sloboda, Yaya Sissoko. © 2024. 17 pages.
This chapter examines the productivity of the public sectors throughout the United States from 1992 through 2022. Because there is heterogeneity across states regarding public...