Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which influence the demand for micro‐insurance services among the informal sector workers of Ghana who are quite vulnerable to various risks in the economy. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a quantitative...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which influence the demand for micro-insurance services among the informal sector workers of Ghana who are quite vulnerable to various risks in the economy. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a quantitative technique...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to examine the influence of corporate governance on the flow of firm-specific information in an emerging market. Design/methodology/approach – Synchronicity is estimated under assumptions of contemporaneous and non-contemporaneous relationship between...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which influence the demand for micro-insurance services among the informal sector workers of Ghana who are quite vulnerable to various risks in the economy. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts a quantitative technique...

Purpose: This study aims to analyze the potential implications of economic freedom and competition for bank stability. Design/methodology/approach: Using system generalized method of moments and data from 139 banks across 11 Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries during the period 2006–2012,...

Welfare losses due to misallocation of resources in the deposit and loans markets and inefficiency costs in both markets resulting from the concentration of the Ghanaian banking industry are estimated, respectively using the Harberger's triangle and deviations from cost efficient stochastic...