This study strengthens the frontiers of research on the drivers of dollarization in emerging economies by exploring the case of Ghana using the autoregressive distributed lag modelling framework. The data for the study spanned from January 2002 to March 2016. The evidence suggests that...

Earlier studies have assumed the effect of tax systems on poverty and inequality to be symmetric by imposing linear specifications. In this study, we account for possible asymmetries by re-examining the effect of tax systems on poverty and inequality in Ghana. We rely on the Nonlinear...

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...