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Prof. George Tweneboah

Professor · Senior Member

🏛 Department of Finance

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Focus & expertise

Specializations

Applied Financial Econometrics International Finance Macroeconomics

Background

🎓 Education & qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Finance

University of the Witwatersrand

2016

Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance

University of Cape Coast

2014

Master of Science in Finance

University of Leicester

2009

Bachelor of Science in Physical Sciences

University of Cape Coast

2005

Certificate in Teacher Education

University of Cape Coast

2000

★ Career & positions

Head of Department

Department of Finance

Aug, 2024 to Aug, 2026

Publications ORCID 0000-0001-7992-7340 →

2026 Connectedness between cryptocurrency and African equities: Evidence from a time-varying approach journal article

2026 Has trade liberalization played a helpful, benign, or malign role on economic growth within the ECOWAS trading bloc? journal article

2026 Effect of entrepreneurial orientation on sustainable financial practices: The roles of dynamic capabilities and institutional conditions journal article

2025 Elders Critical Teachings (ElderCrits): book chapter

2025 FinTech and financial inclusion in emerging and developing economies: a system GMM model journal article

2025 Government size and output volatility in Sub-Saharan African Countries: do threshold levels exist? journal article

2025 Threshold Effect of Financial Inclusion on Poverty Reduction in Africa: Does institutional quality play a role? journal article

2024 Effects of stock market development on economic growth in ECOWAS: does institutional quality matter? journal article

2024 Exchange rates convergence in ECOWAS: WAMZ and WAEMU analysis on frequency time domains journal article

2024 Government interventions and stock market performance during COVID-19 pandemic: Empirical evidence from Ghana journal article

2024 Revisiting stock market development and growth analysis in ECOWAS: a disaggregated analysis of institutional quality as mediating variable journal article

2024 Financial inclusion, financial stability, and poverty reduction in Africa journal article

2023 Determinants of Financial Inclusion in Africa: Is Institutional Quality Relevant? journal article

2023 The antecedents of circular economy financing and investment supply: The role of financial environment journal article

2022 On Exchange Rate Predictability and Adaptive Market Hypothesis in South Africa journal article

2022 GAS and GARCH based value-at-risk modeling of precious metals journal article

2022 Interdependence of economic policy uncertainty and business cycles in selected emerging market economies journal article

2022 NONLINEAR CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMIC POLICY UNCERTAINTY AND MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES IN SELECTED EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES journal article

2022 The role of national culture in financial innovation and bank stability transmission journal article

2021 COVID-19 as Information Transmitter to Global Equity Markets: Evidence from CEEMDAN-Based Transfer Entropy Approach journal article

2021 Herding behaviour in cryptocurrency and emerging financial markets journal article

2021 The effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in Sub-Sahara Africa: Does threshold matter? journal article

2021 Analyzing the relationship between global REITs and exchange rates: Fresh evidence from frequency-based quantile regressions journal article

2021 How does South Africa's real estate investment trusts integrate with major global REITs markets? A time-frequency approach journal article

2021 Impact Of Financial Intermediaries On Economic Growth journal article

2020 Connectedness of cryptocurrencies and gold returns: Evidence from frequency-dependent quantile regressions journal article

2020 Are there asymmetric linkages between African stocks and exchange rates? journal article

2020 Modelling the asymmetric linkages between spot gold prices and African stocks journal article

2020 Shape-shift contagion in emerging markets equities: Evidence from frequency-and time-domain analysis journal article

2019 Dollarization, Inflation Targeting, and Inflationary Dynamics in Ghana journal article

2019 Interdependence of Major Exchange Rates in Ghana: A Wavelet Coherence Analysis journal article

2019 Financial development and dollarization in Ghana: an empirical investigation journal article

2019 On the global integration of REITs market returns: A multiresolution analysis journal article

2019 Dynamic interdependence of industrial metal price returns: Evidence from wavelet multiple correlations journal article

2019 Integration of major african stock markets: Evidence from multi-scale wavelets correlation journal article

2019 Modelling return behaviour of global real estate investment trusts equities: Evidence from generalised lambda distribution journal article

2018 Interdependence structure of precious metal prices: A multi-scale perspective journal article

2017 Anti-persistence and long-memory behaviour of SAREITs journal article

2017 Co-movement of real exchange rates in the West African Monetary Zone journal article

2016 Economic integration and exchange rate dynamics in the West african Monetary Zone journal article

2015 Convergence of growth rates in the West African monetary zone journal article

2015 On the sustainability and synchronization of fiscal policy in Latin America journal article

2009 Foreign direct investment and stock market development: Ghana's evidence journal article

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