The study examines the relationship between the consequential social cost of market power (i.e. welfare performance of banks) and cost efficiency using data covering the period 2009 to 2017 from the Ghanaian banking industry. The study adopts the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS), Fixed Effect (FE)...

This study examines how employee friendliness influences performance volatility in banks. We differentiate inherent and residual volatility. Using 32 public banks in four emerging African economies from 2005 to 2021, we find that employee friendliness practices are positively associated with...

This study investigates the determinants of profitability of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Ghana using a sample of 18 SOEs over the years 2014-2016. Applying Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) with clustering at firm level, the results show that profitability (ROA, ROE) of SOEs decreases in...

This paper links pension literacy to retirement planning in an emerging economy. The results show that the correct knowledge about pension basics and savings rate have a positive effect on employees' efforts to plan for their retirement. Conversely, employees' correct knowledge about pension...