Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4451501 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elikplimi Komla Agbloyor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elikplimi Komla |
| FAMILY NAME | Agbloyor |
| SIGNATURE | AGBLOYOR E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ghana |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3945-5224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bank Credit Risk and Profitability: The Role of Intellectual Capital Efficiency in an Emerging Economy in Africa
While it is empirically evident that credit risk reduces profitability, it is empirically unclear how intellectual capital efficiency (ICE) mitigates the effect of credit risk on bank profitability. Hence, this study explores whether ICE can moderate the relationship between credit risk and bank profitability. Data was collected from the audited annual reports of 23 commercial banks in Ghana, and two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) was u…
Reducing the Increasing Effect of Fiscal Expenditure on Government Debts: Does Financial Sector Transparency Matter
In this study, we attempt to examine how transparency in the financial sector (financial sector transparency or FST) moderates the increasing effect of fiscal expenditure on government debts using 23 African economies over a 16‐year period [Correction made on 28 November 2025, after first online publication: ‘or FST’ was added to the parentheses in this sentence.]. The study employs two‐step dynamic GMM panel models with additional controls for y…
Market Power and Bank Lending in Africa: The Role of Regulatory Policy
The paper investigates how regulatory policy modulates the complex relationship between market power and bank lending. The empirical evidence is based on the seemingly unrelated panel regressions by employing a dataset of 52 African countries for the period, 2006–2018. The study finds a U-shaped relationship between market power and bank lending. The study shows that the estimated thresholds fall within the range of -4.38 to 9.67 of market power.…
Importing to feed international tourists: Growth implications for islands across the globe
The expansion of inbound tourism among global islands, amidst relatively inadequate supporting tradable goods, potentially triggers high merchandise imports, resulting in an indeterminate impact on economic growth. Employing fixed and random effects estimation techniques on five-year-non-overlapping-averaged data, covering 1980 through 2019, this study, firstly, investigates the potential bi-causal relationship between inbound tourism and merchan…
Foreign direct investment and inclusive finance: Do financial markets and quality of institutions matter
We examine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on financial inclusion. To identify the causal effect of FDI on financial inclusion, we use plausibly exogenous source of variations in bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as a novel instrumental variable (IV) for net FDI inflows. Using annual data for a broad panel of 90 countries over the period 2004 to 2017, our results show that FDI improves financial inclusion for both “access to fina…
Bank lending behaviour and systemic banking crisis in Africa: The role of regulatory framework
We examine how regulatory framework shapes the impact of bank lending behaviour on the probability of systemic banking crisis by using data from 52 African countries over the period 2006–2018. The study found that banks that lend beyond a certain level of threshold have the greater probability of causing a systemic banking crisis. The study provides empirical evidence in support of the argument that above average lending behaviour reduces the pre…
Bank Ownership Types and Liquidity Creation: Evidence from Ghana
In this study, we examine bank liquidity creation and the effect of ownership types on liquidity creation in Ghana for the first time. The study employs data on 26 banks obtained from Bank of Ghana between 2006 and 2016. Three panel estimation strategies including two-step GMM, Hausman-Taylor and Fixed effect models are employed to arrive at the findings. Employing the narrow liquidity creation computation approach, the results show that average …
Bank Deposit Mobilization, Loan Advancement and Financial Stability: The Role of Bank Branches in an Emerging Market
This study investigates the relationship between bank branches, financial intermediation, and financial stability in Ghana using 35 banks between 2009 and 2017. Employing a panel two-step dynamic GMM model, a non-linear “inverted U-shaped” relationship is documented between bank branches and financial stability. This implies that initial increases in bank branches promote financial stability but beyond 191 and 173 bank branches, bank branching de…
Do countries’ geographical locations moderate the tourism-led economic growth nexus in sub-Saharan Africa
Debates on the intricacies of tourism’s potential contribution to economic growth remain imperative and unsettled in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Employing dynamic models and multiple robust estimation techniques, this article empirically tests the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH) in the case of SSA. Further investigations on how countries’ geographical locations influence the TLGH are conducted. With panel data – spanning from the year 2000 thr…
Foreign direct investment, anti‐money laundering regulations and economic growth
This study seeks to establish the impact of anti‐money laundering (AML) regulations on economic growth as well as how AML regulations influence the foreign direct investment (FDI)–growth nexus for 165 economies across the globe. We employ Prais–Winsten and the Hansen (2000) panel threshold regression estimation techniques to test the hypotheses of the study. We use data ranging from 2012 to 2018. We provide evidence that AML regulations generally…
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Bank Ownership Types and Liquidity Creation: Evidence from Ghana
In this study, we examine bank liquidity creation and the effect of ownership types on liquidity creation in Ghana for the first time. The study employs data on 26 banks obtained from Bank of Ghana between 2006 and 2016. Three panel estimation strategies including two-step GMM, Hausman-Taylor and Fixed effect models are employed to arrive at the findings. Employing the narrow liquidity creation computation approach, the results show that average …
Bank Deposit Mobilization, Loan Advancement and Financial Stability: The Role of Bank Branches in an Emerging Market
This study investigates the relationship between bank branches, financial intermediation, and financial stability in Ghana using 35 banks between 2009 and 2017. Employing a panel two-step dynamic GMM model, a non-linear “inverted U-shaped” relationship is documented between bank branches and financial stability. This implies that initial increases in bank branches promote financial stability but beyond 191 and 173 bank branches, bank branching de…
Do countries’ geographical locations moderate the tourism-led economic growth nexus in sub-Saharan Africa
Debates on the intricacies of tourism’s potential contribution to economic growth remain imperative and unsettled in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Employing dynamic models and multiple robust estimation techniques, this article empirically tests the tourism-led growth hypothesis (TLGH) in the case of SSA. Further investigations on how countries’ geographical locations influence the TLGH are conducted. With panel data – spanning from the year 2000 thr…
Foreign direct investment, anti‐money laundering regulations and economic growth
This study seeks to establish the impact of anti‐money laundering (AML) regulations on economic growth as well as how AML regulations influence the foreign direct investment (FDI)–growth nexus for 165 economies across the globe. We employ Prais–Winsten and the Hansen (2000) panel threshold regression estimation techniques to test the hypotheses of the study. We use data ranging from 2012 to 2018. We provide evidence that AML regulations generally…
Bank lending behaviour and systemic banking crisis in Africa: The role of regulatory framework
We examine how regulatory framework shapes the impact of bank lending behaviour on the probability of systemic banking crisis by using data from 52 African countries over the period 2006–2018. The study found that banks that lend beyond a certain level of threshold have the greater probability of causing a systemic banking crisis. The study provides empirical evidence in support of the argument that above average lending behaviour reduces the pre…
Market Power and Bank Lending in Africa: The Role of Regulatory Policy
The paper investigates how regulatory policy modulates the complex relationship between market power and bank lending. The empirical evidence is based on the seemingly unrelated panel regressions by employing a dataset of 52 African countries for the period, 2006–2018. The study finds a U-shaped relationship between market power and bank lending. The study shows that the estimated thresholds fall within the range of -4.38 to 9.67 of market power.…
Importing to feed international tourists: Growth implications for islands across the globe
The expansion of inbound tourism among global islands, amidst relatively inadequate supporting tradable goods, potentially triggers high merchandise imports, resulting in an indeterminate impact on economic growth. Employing fixed and random effects estimation techniques on five-year-non-overlapping-averaged data, covering 1980 through 2019, this study, firstly, investigates the potential bi-causal relationship between inbound tourism and merchan…
Foreign direct investment and inclusive finance: Do financial markets and quality of institutions matter
We examine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on financial inclusion. To identify the causal effect of FDI on financial inclusion, we use plausibly exogenous source of variations in bilateral investment treaties (BITs) as a novel instrumental variable (IV) for net FDI inflows. Using annual data for a broad panel of 90 countries over the period 2004 to 2017, our results show that FDI improves financial inclusion for both “access to fina…
Bank Credit Risk and Profitability: The Role of Intellectual Capital Efficiency in an Emerging Economy in Africa
While it is empirically evident that credit risk reduces profitability, it is empirically unclear how intellectual capital efficiency (ICE) mitigates the effect of credit risk on bank profitability. Hence, this study explores whether ICE can moderate the relationship between credit risk and bank profitability. Data was collected from the audited annual reports of 23 commercial banks in Ghana, and two-step generalized method of moments (GMM) was u…
Reducing the Increasing Effect of Fiscal Expenditure on Government Debts: Does Financial Sector Transparency Matter
In this study, we attempt to examine how transparency in the financial sector (financial sector transparency or FST) moderates the increasing effect of fiscal expenditure on government debts using 23 African economies over a 16‐year period [Correction made on 28 November 2025, after first online publication: ‘or FST’ was added to the parentheses in this sentence.]. The study employs two‐step dynamic GMM panel models with additional controls for y…
Economics (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Monetary economics (6 works) · Econometrics (5 works) · Economic Growth and Development (5 works) · Financial system (5 works) · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies (5 works) · Panel data (5 works) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (4 works) · Finance (4 works)