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Corporate governance, ownership structure, cash holdings, and firm value on the Ghana Stock Exchange

Isshaq, Zangina; Bokpin, Godfred A.; Onumah, Joseph Mensah (University of Cape Coast, 2009)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction between corporate governance, ownership structure, cash holdings, and firm value on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple ...

Corporate governance, disclosure and foreign share ownership on the Ghana Stock Exchange

Bokpin, Godfred A.; Isshaq, Zangina (University of Cape Coast, 2009)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the interaction between corporate disclosure and foreign share ownership on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows the trinary ...

Corporate Governance in an Emergent Economy: A case of Ghana

Castellini, Monia (University of Cape Coast, 2015)

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine corporate governance practices in an emerging economy. It focusses on how ownership control and board control systems operate in corporate organisations in an emergent ...

Corporate disclosure and foreign share ownership: empirical evidence from African countries

Bokpin, Godfred A.; Isshaq, Zangina; Nyarko, Eunice Stella (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

Purpose – The study aims to seeks to ascertain the impact of corporate disclosure on foreign equity ownership. Corporate disclosures are important to for stock markets because it is an activity that mitigates information ...

Copula-Based Assessment of Co-Movement and Tail Dependence Structure Among Major Trading Foreign Currencies in Ghana

Mensah, Prince Osei; Anokye, M. Adam (University of Cape Coast, 2020)

This paper examines the joint movement and tail dependence structure between the pair of foreign exchange rates (EUR, USD and GBP) against the GHS, using daily exchange rates data expressed in GHS per unit of foreign ...

Connectedness of cryptocurrencies and gold returns: Evidence from frequency-dependent quantile regressions

Peterson, Owusu Junior; Anokye, M. Adam; Tweneboah, George (University of Cape Coast, 2020-08-17)

This paper explores the symmetric and asymmetric dependency structure of decomposed return series of Gold and eight cryptocurrencies to establish the hedging and diversification potentials of these asset classes. Daily ...

COMPETENCY-BASED TEACHING USING SIMULATION EXERCISES

Agyapong, Daniel (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

Tertiary institutions exist to train manpower to solve local, national, and international problems. Products from such institutions should not be a problem to countries as in the case of some Sub-Saharan African countries ...

Co-movement of real exchange rates in the West African Monetary Zone

Peterson, Owusu Junior; Anokye, M. Adam; Tweneboah, George (University of Cape Coast, 2017-07-11)

In three different ways of lead–lag causal relationship, covariance/ correlation and coherence, we apply the wavelets analysis via the Continuous Morlet Wavelet Transform to delineate the significant frequency–time domain ...

Capital Structure of Ghanaian Banks: An Evaluation of Its Impact on Performance

Gatsi, John Gartchie (University of Cape Coast, 2020-02-22)

The impact of debt structure on financial performance of banks in Ghana remains an important research issue. According to Ghana Banking Survey (2010), the assets of the banks have changed, competition has increased and ...

CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND PROFITABILITY IN GHNANAIAN BANKS

Gatsi, John Gartchie; Akoto, Richard Kofi (University of Cape Coast, 2020-04-15)

We studied capital structure and profitability in Ghanaian banks using panel data methodology was employed. Capital structure theories have been utilised to provide the theoretical basis for the work. The study covered ...

Capital Mobility and Single Currency Adoption: Evidence from the West African Monetary Zone

Agyapong, Daniel (University of Cape Coast, 2020-03-24)

The quest of introducing a single currency in West Africa seems to be long overdue. Already, there have been three postponements and a fourth postponement is likely according to experts, simply because member countries ...

Can Stocks Hedge against Inflation in the Long Run? Evidence from Ghana Stock Market

Anokye, Mohammed Adam; Siaw, Frimpong (University of Cape Coast, 2017-03-14)

Based on Fisher (1930) hypothesis, we test whether Ghana stock market can provide hedge against inflation in the long run using cointegration analysis. Using data for the Databank stock Index (DSI) from January 1991 ...

CALENDAR EFFECT AND RETURNS OF LISTED COMPANIES ON THE GHANA STOCK EXCHANGE: A DOLS AND GARCH MODELLING

Agyapong, Daniel; Atuah, Theophilus Sakyiamah; Asare-Adu Idun, Anthony (University of Cape Coast, 2020-02-12)

This study investigated the existence of a day-of-the-week, January, and turn-of-themonth effects on the stock returns from the financial institutions and manufacturing companies listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. Daily ...

Building an Organizational Culture that Promotes Innovation in IT Firms: A Conceptual Framework

Korkpoe, Carl Hope; Nyarku, Kwamena Minta (University of Cape Coast, 2013)

Conceptually, new technologies have affected individuals and organisations resulting to the rethinking of all the fundamental operating assumptions of many organisations and the roles in them. Organisations exist in ...

BOARD SIZE, INTENSITY OF BOARD ACTIVITY AND ACCESS TO FINANCE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM GHANAIAN SMEs

Ansong, Abraham; Agyemang, OTUO SEREBOUR (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

Our paper examines the effects of board characteristics on access to finance among Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana by controlling for firm specific variables such as firm performance, firm size, ...

Capital Structure of Ghanaian Banks: An Evaluation of Its Impact on Performance

Gatsi, John Gartchie (University of Cape Coast, 2017)

The impact of debt structure on financial performance of banks in Ghana remains an important research issue. According to Ghana Banking Survey (2010), the assets of the banks have changed, competition has increased and ...

BOARD SIZE, INTENSITY OF BOARD ACTIVITY AND ACCESS TO FINANCE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM GHANAIAN SMEs

ANSONG, ABRAHAM; AGYEMANG, OTUO SEREBOUR (University of Cape Coast, 2016)

Our paper examines the effects of board characteristics on access to finance among Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Ghana by controlling for firm specific variables such as firm performance, firm size, ...

Board of Directors and Firm Performance of Banking Institutions: A Ghanaian Experience

Agyemang, Otuo Serebour; Aboagye, Emmanuel; Antwi, Samuel; Frimpong, Joyce (University of Cape Coast, 2014)

We examine how board characteristics and activities affect firm performance of banking institutions listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange. The data come from the annual reports of the banking institutions for the period, ...

BEYOND VOLATILITY-AN AUTOREGRESSIVE CONDITIONAL DENSITY MODEL FOR THE JOHANNESBURG STOCK EXCHANGE ALL SHARE INDEX RETURNS

Korkpoe, Carl Hope; Oseifuah, Emmanuel K (University of Cape Coast, 2019)

The study used the Autoregressive Conditional Density (ACD) methodology to model time-varying higher moments in the distribution of returns of the JSE All Share Index (JSEALSI) over the15-year period, January 2003 to ...

Behaviour of Johannesburg Stock Exchange All Share Index Returns - An Asymmetric GARCH and News Impact Effects Approach

Korkpoe, Carl H.; Peterson, Owusu Jr (University of Cape Coast, 2018)

We investigated the behaviour of returns of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange All Share Index using asymmetrical exponential-GARCH(1,1) and GJR-GARCH(1,1) incorporating the market reactions to news. We noted the returns ...

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