This study compares the quality of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices and reporting of firms operating in Africa listed in Western economies and firms exclusively listed on the African stock exchange, using the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) CSR checklist. Interpretive content...

This study uses a survey approach to investigate how managers associated with thirty (30) firm characteristics subgroups apply thirty-seven (37) investment decision techniques in practice in a frontier market covering: capital budgeting, cost of equity, cost of capital, and adjustments for other...

We use a survey approach to investigate how managers in a frontier market apply financing and dividend decision techniques in practice. 15 firm characteristics were grouped into paired subgroups for a two-sample t-test analysis that generated statistical differences, economic significance levels...

We examine the time-frequency lead-lag relationships and the degree of integration between the US financial stress index and global commodity prices (i.e., oil, gold, silver, and cocoa) with data covering over 47 decades (January 1975 to December 2021). For this purpose, we resort to the bi- and...

The wide interest rate spread has been a matter of concern for many developing economies. In Ghana, the perception is that the interest rate spread is too wide and that banks have linked it to various variables affecting them. This study examines the effect of banking sector reforms on bank...

Although literature acknowledges the nonlinearity in monetary policy behaviour of central banks, the appropriateness of the models used to capture the nonlinearity remains questionable. Moreover, the paucity of research on nonlinear monetary policy rules in the context of Africa and Ghana in...

The letter examines herding in the most liquid cryptocurrency markets relative to traditional financial markets of 10 emerging economies within the G20. Our results reference significant symmetric crowd and imitation trading, which are dependent on time. Additionally, we report asymmetric herd...

Over the years, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has become the pollution haven for most industrious companies around the globe due to foreign direct investment (FDI) activities. As a result, policymakers and researchers are striving to implement policies to guide the conduct of FDI since ineffective...

Although theories on channels of monetary policy transmission emphasize indirect monetary policy effect on inflation and output, empirical literature is surprisingly rooted in a direct approach. The use of variants of vector autoregression, with theoretical ordering of variables, does not only...

Although economic agents in different parts of a country face heterogeneous prices, empirical literature continue to assume homogeneity in the monetary policy-inflation nexus, with dire consequences for optimal monetary policy and welfare. Using wavelet-based quantile regressions, we provide a...