July 2014

Revisiting government spending and growth analysis in Ghana: A disaggregated analysis from 1970 to 2010

Government’s desire to raise economic growth in Ghana has led to a sharp rise in public spending in Ghana without any significant impact on economic growth. This study set out to investigate the relationship between economic growth and government spending at the disaggregated level with an Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model with annual data spanning from 1970 to 2010 to advice policy makers on the...

Author(s): Adu Frank and Ackah Ishmaell

July 2014

Assessing the performance of banks listed on Ghana stock exchange: Financial ratio analysis (2005 to 2011)

Banks and non-bank financial institutions, supported by efficient money and capital markets ensure the successful operation of the financial system in an economy. Efficient banking industries must be capable of measuring, analyzing and hedging or otherwise limit all types of risk faced resulting from transactions undertaken.The average efficiency of the individual banks operating in an industry reflects the...

Author(s): Sarpong David Jnr, Winful Ernest Christian and Owusu-Mensah Matthew

July 2014

Franklin’s economic graph formula/rules: A set of rules and procedural guidelines through which economic and non-static diagrams can be skeletonized and converted to simpler model diagrams for easier study, explanation and comprehension of economic diagrams

A reference book on economic diagrams is strongly believed to be a good solution to the challenge posed by graph in Economics. Graph has posed a challenge to many in the field of Economics, thus increasing the need to create a solution for it. Therefore, this research employs some set of rules or formula set of procedural guidelines through which economic diagrams can be skeletonized and converted to simpler model...

Author(s): Franklin, Chiemeka Agukwe