Michael Effah Asamoah (PhD)
Adjunct: Finance and Economics
Micheal is a scholar in accounting, finance, and economics with a significant history of teaching experience and academic leadership in the higher education sector. He has over ten years of tertiary education teaching across different universities. Michael also engages in highly impactful research focusing on private capital flows, real sector growth, macroeconomic (in) stability, institutional quality, development finance, intellectual capital and domestic resources mobilization.
His research works have appeared in high-ranked impact factor journals such as Economic Systems, Journal of Economic Studies, Research in International Business and Finance, Journal of International Development, International Journal of Finance and Economics and Resource Policy. Michael is a thesis examiner for universities in both Ghana and South Africa. He has served on various committees within the University of Ghana. Michael is a Chartered Accountant with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in finance and economics from The University of the Witwatersrand.
- Corporate Finance
- Finance for Non-finance Managers
- Managerial Accounting
- Private capital flows
- Real sector growth
- Macroeconomic (in)stability
- Institutional quality
- Development finance
- Intellectual capital
- Domestic resources mobilization
- Ofori-Sasu, D., Adu-Darko, E., Asamoah, M. E., & Abor, J. Y. (2023). Oil rents, trade environment and financial development: An international evidence. Resources Policy, 82, 103492.
- Adu, F., Alagidede, I. P., Osei, D. B., & Asamoah, M. E. (2023). Asymmetric effect of tax systems on poverty and inequality: Exploring the distributional impact of domestic resource mobilization systems in Ghana. Cogent Economics & Finance, 11(1), 2166211.
- Asamoah, M. E., & Alagidede, I. P. (2023). Foreign direct investment, real sector growth and financial development. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 28(1), 626 – 643
2022 - Asamoah, M. E. Alagidede, I. P., and Adu F (2022). On the Allocation Puzzle and Capital Flows Evidence From FDI – Real Sector Growth In SSA. African Development Review. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12656
- Asamoah, M. E. and Alagidede, I. P., (2022). On the Exchange Rate Uncertainty – Foreign Direct Investment Nexus: Does Financial Development Matter in Africa? Review of Development Economics, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.12858
- Doctor of Philosophy (Finance and Economics) South Africa
Wits Business School, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. - Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Lancaster University, UK
- Master of Philosophy in Business Administration (Finance Option), University of Ghana Business School
- Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Accounting Option), University of Ghana Business
- Certificate of Final Examination Ghana, Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAG)
- Chartered Institute of Taxation, Ghana, Final Level 1 (Passed International Taxation; Oil and Gas Taxation)
- Post First Degree Law (Final year), University of Ghana School of Law
