The performance of the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) over the years has been susceptible to both crises and country-specific factors reflected in its macroeconomic fundamentals. Accordingly, the GSE composite index (GSECI) has experienced rapid fluctuations across time, coupled with a declining...

The level of causation and interdependencies among three commodities (cocoa, gold, and Brent crude oil), five banking sector performance indicators (Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR), Non-Performing Loans (NPL), Return on Equity (ROE), Return on Assets (ROA) and Core Liquid assets to total assets...

The unfavourable macroeconomic situation in Ghana has ignited innovations in the strategic direction of the banks especially in their loan portfolio allocation. In the wake of information sharing services provided by credit scoring agencies, this study examines the effect of banks' asset and...

We provide empirical investigations into the role of political institutions in the bank market power-economic growth nexus using country-level data from 44 African countries from 2002 to 2015. We employed a dynamic GMM model to achieve the above objective. The results show that banks with market...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the correlation between risk governance and bank performance while taking into consideration the influence of board expertise. The study argues that the connection between risk governance and performance depends on the level of expertise among board members...