Nicholas Addai Boamah
The researcher's overall research focus centers on developing and applying robust empirical methodologies across multiple African contexts, with a particular emphasis on housing market dynamics, property prices, and regulatory factors influencing housing affordability. Their work integrates insights from real estate investments, household characteristics, urban development challenges, financial crisis analysis, and macroeconomic policies to address key themes such as the integration of financial markets, banking performance, property pricing, and economic growth in African contexts.
Faculty Biography
Curriculum VitaeNICHOLAS ADDAI BOAMAH Educational QualificationsPhD In Applied Finance, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 2011-2015MSc. In Finance (Distinction), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, 2004-2005MPhil. In Real Estate Finance, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 2002-2003BSc. In Land Economy (First Class), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana, 1997-2001 Work Experience Date: January 2018 -Job title: Senior Lecturer in FinanceResponsibilities: Teaching Financial Regulation and Supervision, Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Banking Law, Entrepreneurial Finance, Real estate and Mortgage Finance, Derivatives and Risk Management, Investment and Portfolio Analysis and Research Techniques in Finance. Date: 2016 - 2017Job title: Adjunct LecturerResponsibilities: Teaching Finance and Quantitative Methods, Insurance and Risk Pricing, Money Matters and Business Data Analysis. I contribute to the development of the Financial Modeling and Real Estate Finance units.Date: July - December 2015Job title: Adjunct LecturerResponsibilities: Teaching Property Investment Analysis and Property Finance. Date: 2007-2017Job title: Lecturer in Real Estate and Land ManagementResponsibilities:ResearchI research on financial markets, asset pricing, financial market integration, housing finance markets and affordability, land and property markets, and land use planning. Teaching and supervisionMy tasks involve teaching Investment Analysis, Introduction to Finance, Real Estate Finance, Tools of Financial Economics, Property Valuation, and Rating and Taxation at the undergraduate level. I teach Financial Management, Corporate Finance, and Financial Markets at the postgraduate level. AdministrationI administered courses and examinations and served on various boards including the Department and Faculty management and examination boards. I organized workshops and seminars as part of my responsibilities. I was the Acting Head of the Department Real Estate and Land Management, Faculty of Planning and Land Management from 1st September, 2010 to 15th May 2011.Curricula DevelopmentI contributed to the development of the curricula for the BSc. Real Estate and BSc Land Management programmes of the Department of Real Estate and Land Management, University for Development Studies, Ghana. Date: 1999-2001Job Title: Peer Counselor (Volunteer)Responsibilities: Provided voluntary counseling services on academic matters to colleague students under the tutelage of staff of the University Counseling Unit. I provided counseling support to my peers which contributed positively to their academic progression. Academic Awards and Prizes Selected Publications in Refereed Journals Conference Papers Research Interests Financial Markets, Asset Pricing, Financial Market Integration, Asset Management, Housing Finance Market, Real Estate Markets, Land Markets. Selected Journals for Peer Review Activities RefereesChair of FinanceFaculty of Law and Business, Australian Catholic University Tension Woods House, Level 10, 8-20 Napier Street, North Sydney, NSW 2059Email: donald.ross@acu.edu.auSchool of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK,E-mail: R.Abdulai@ljmu.ac.ukDepartment of Planning and Management, Faculty of Planning and Land ManagementUniversity of Development Studies, Wa Campus, Ghana, Email: johnnelson.kb@gmail.comEconomics, Finance and Property, School of Business,University of Western Sydney, AustraliaEmail: M.Varua@westernsydney.edu.au
Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
Corporate Finance and Governance
Corruption and Economic Development
Economic Growth and Development
Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
Global Financial Crisis and Policies
Housing Market and Economics
Insurance and Financial Risk Management
Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
Land Rights and Reforms
Market Dynamics and Volatility
Monetary Policy and Economic Impact
Urban and Rural Development Challenges
The regional informational efficiency of African banking sector
Analysis of the Ghanaian housing deficit between 1991 and 2017: The potential household approach
Open AccessGovernance quality, regional integration and African banking sector stability
Political situation, legal and labour regulatory regimes and employment creation by firms in emerging economies
Integration of the African banking sector
Open AccessReligious diversity, formal institutional environments and regulatory capital decisions
Political environment, employee tenure security and firm performance in middle-income economies
Open AccessThe integration of real estate investment trust: a wavelet coherency analysis
Corruption, crime and investments by firms in emerging economies
What accounts for the high underwriting losses in the Ghanaian insurance industry?
Efficiency, foreign banks presence, competition and risk exposure of banks in middle-income economies
Quality standards, crime management and the efficiency of manufacturing firms in middle-income economies
Open AccessCapital regulation, liquidity risk, efficiency and banks performance in emerging economies
Segmentation, business environment and global informational efficiency of emerging financial markets
Risk-taking behavior, competition, diversification and performance of frontier and emerging economy banks
Open AccessIntegration, investor protection rules and global informational inefficiency of emerging financial markets
INVESTOR HERD BEHAVIOUR IN AFRICA’S EMERGING AND FRONTIER MARKETS
Open AccessEconomic engagement and within emerging markets integration
Investment, financial sector development and the degree of emerging markets integration
The global financial market integration of selected emerging markets
Regionally integrated asset pricing on the African stock markets: Evidence from the Fama French and Carhart models
The relevance of global sector influence in African sector portfolios
The Price of Risk on the African Frontier Stock Markets
Regional and global market integration of African financial markets
Open AccessFinancial crisis, the real sector and global effects on the African stock markets
The dynamics of the relative global sector effects and contagion in emerging markets equity returns
Investigating temporal variation in the global and regional integration of African stock markets
Challenges to Property Rate Administration in the Offinso South Municipality, Ghana
Structural breaks in the relative importance of country and industry factors in African stock returns
Robustness of the Carhart four-factor and the Fama-French three-factor models on the South African stock market
Testing the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rate: the case of Ghana
The impact of households characteristics on the state of housing in the Offinso South Municipality (OSM), Ghana
Development controls in the Offinso South municipality, Ghana
Enhancing Efficiency in Land Management through the Customary Land Secretariats (CLSs) in Upper West Region, Ghana
Open AccessThe Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and the importance of country and industry factors in African stock returns
Constraints on property rating in the Offinso South Municipality of Ghana
Open AccessLand use controls and residential land values in the Offinso South municipality, Ghana
Urban Land Market in Ghana: A Study of the Wa Municipality
Global Integration of African Stock Markets
Open AccessHousing for the vulnerable in the Offinso South Municipality of Ghana
The impact of land use regulations on residential land values in the Wa municipality, Ghana
Land factors and their impact on the housing finance market in Ghana
The regulatory environment and housing finance market in Ghana
Challenges to the enforcement of development controls in the Wa municipality
Risk-return characteristics and integration of the Ghana stock exchange
Department of Accounting and Finance
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology