This paper applies a local-linear non-parametric kernel regression technique to examine the effect of macroeconomic factors on stock market performance in Ghana. We show that the popular parametric specification in the existing literature suffers from functional misspecification. The evidence...

Ghana is presently confronted with persistent budget deficits and burgeoning public debt in excess of 52% of GDP and frequent fluctuations in total output below its long-run trend. This is of great concern which has issues for the country's long term growth and debt sustainability. Though the...

The paper investigates the long run dynamics of money supply, budget deficit and inflation in Ghana. It also tests the validity of the classical, monetary and fiscal theories of price level within the vector error correction framework. Using quarterly data from 1999Q1 to 2019Q4, the paper...