Dr. Abel Fumey

Senior Lecturer

Contact info afumey@ug.edu.gh

Publications

LIST OF PUBLICATION PUBLICATIONS

1. Fumey, A. (2025). Financial inclusion and informality: Empirical evidence in Ghana. Indian Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research. 6(1), 21-40.   

2. Frimpong, B., Fumey, A., & Nketiah-Amponsah., E. (2024). Effects of Public Debt on Public Infrastructure Investment in Ghana, Cogent Economics & Finance, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2363460. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2024.2363460

3.    Ocran, K. F. & Fumey, A. (2023). Household Spending and Income Inequality: Examining the Effects of a Consumption-based tax in Ghana, Ghana Journal of Economics, Vol. 11, (2023) pp11 - 25.  

4.    Abel Fumey and William Bekoe (2023). Taxation, Economic Growth and Trade Openness in African Countries: Heterogeneous and Semi parametric Panel Causality Analysis, Journal of International Money, Banking and Finance, 4: 2, pp. 69-92. https://DOI:10.47509/JIMDF.2023.v04i02.01

5.    Fumey, A. & Nketiah-Amponsah, E. (2022). Effects of Import Tax Expenditure on Revenue Mobilisation in Ghana, Journal of Smart Economics Growth, 7(2), 1 - 31

6.    Fumey, A., Egwaikide, F. O.&Adeniyi O. A. (2022). Intergovernmental Grant Transfers from Central to Local Levels of Government in Ghana: Does Formula Allocation Prevents Political Influences? Journal of Economics and Public Finance, 8(3), 82 – 106.https://doi:10.22158/jepf.v8n3p

7.    Fumey, A., Bekoe, W. &Abubakari., I (2022). External Debt Servicing and Capital Formation in Ghana: An Autoregressive distributed Lag Analysis. European Journal of Economic and Financial Research, 6(1), 120 - 145. https://doi.org/10.46827/ejefr.v6i1.1272.

8.    Agyeman-Boateng, S.Y., Fumey, A. &Bediako S. N. (2022). Impact evaluation of household participation in agriculture on welfare in Ghana. African Social Science and Humanities Journal, 3(3), 1 – 21.

9.    Agyeman-Boateng, S.Y. &Fumey, A. (2021). Effects of Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD) on the Welfare of Cocoa Farmers in Ghana: Evidence from Chorichori Community of the SefwiAkontombra District. SN Business & Economics, (1) 149 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-021-00152-8.

10.    Fumey, A. &Abdulai, I. (2020) Demand for Financial Products in Rural Communities: Evidence from Ghana. West African Financial and Economic Review, 20(2), 117 -147.

11.    Ofori, M. S., Fumey, A. & Nketiah-Amponsah, E. (2020). Forecasting Value Added Tax Revenue in Ghana. Journal of Economics and Financial Analysis, 4(2), 63 – 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1991/jefa.v4i2.a37.

12.    Ocran, F. K. & Fumey, A. (2023). Household spending and income inequality: examining the effects of a consumption-based tax in Ghana. Ghanaian Journal of Economics, 11(1), 11 - 25. December 1, 2023.

13.    Frimpong, B. Fumey, A. & Nketiah-Amponsah, E. (2024). Effects of public debt on public infrastructure investment in Ghana. Cogent Economics & Finance, 12:1, 2363460, DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2024.2363460.

14.    Fumey, A.,&Egwaikhide, O. F. (2018). Redistributive Politics: The Case of Fiscal Transfers in Ghana. International Journal of Social Economics, 46(2), 213-225. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-05-2017-0191

15.    Fumey, A.,&Egwaikhide, O. F. (2018). Political Economy of Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: The Rural-Urban Dynamics in Ghana. African Development Review, 30(1) 33-44.https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8268.12310

16.    Adedoyin, F. F., Fumey, A.,&Popoola, A. (2017). Government Bailout of Distress States in Nigeria: An Analysis of the 2015 Fiscal Crisis” International Journal of African and Asian Studies, 38(10), 78-92.

17.    Fumey, A.,&Doku, I. (2016). Interest Rate Spread in Ghana’s Banking Sector: 2000-2014. Annals of Management Sciences, 5(1), 37-54https://doi.org/10.24048/ams5.no1/2016/37-54

18.    Fumey, A.,&Doku, I. (2013). Dividend payout ratio in Ghana: Does the pecking order theory hold good? Journal of Emerging Issues in Economics, Finance and banking, 2(2), 616 – 637.

19.    Fumey, A. (2012). Real Exchange Rate and Economic Growth: Determining the Direction of Impact in Ghana. West African Financial and Economic Review, 9(1), 129-152.

20.    Twerefou, D.K., Fumey, A., Assibey, E. O.,&Asmah, E. E. (2010). Buoyancy and Elasticity of Tax: Evidence from Ghana. Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration, 10(2), 36–70.

21.    Fumey, A. (2014). Determinants of Tax Revenue Share in Ghana: 1983-2011 In:Twerefou, D.K., Quartey, P., Boakye-Yiadom, L., &Baah-Boateng, W. (ed), Readings on Key Economic Issues in Ghana, Digibooks Publication.

22.    Fumey, A. (2018).Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tactical political maneuverings: Evidence from Ghana’s District Assemblies Common Fund, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2018/31. https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2018/473-5