Audrey Nguema Bekale

Biographic Data

ID9638056
NAMEAudrey Nguema Bekale
GIVEN NAMESAudrey Nguema
FAMILY NAMEBekale
SIGNATUREBEKALE A N
AFFILIATIONSWits Business School University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg South Africa
ORCID0000-0003-0809-5326
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • The Impact of Derivatives Use on Systemic Risk of Africa’s Banking System

    Audrey Nguema Bekale, Imhotep Paul Alagidede et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Business2024

    This paper contributes to the debate about Africa’s financial stability by focusing on the prevalence of systemic risk in 40 listed derivatives user-banks over 2011–2017, employing the systemic risk index (SRI), and subsequently exploring how it links to the continent’s financial market development. The systemic risk buildup within the industry is mainly depicted as an unstable, diluted, and possibly depleting process. Gloomy predictions persist …

  • Derivatives use and the risk‐taking behaviour of African banks

    Open AccessAudrey Nguema Bekale, Imhotep Paul Alagidede et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2023

    Evidence has been presented that banks typically maintain risk‐exacerbating derivatives positions. Within the context of African economies, this paper focuses on the impact of derivatives activities on the risk‐taking impulse of banks. It also examines the risk‐taking impulse resulting from banks' business lending efficiency. Estimation was carried out using standard ROA—and ROE—based idiosyncratic risk metrics and two‐stage least squares regress…