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Abel Fumey

EDUCATION:

PhD (Economics), University of Ibadan, 2017
MPhil (Economics), University of Ghana, 2009
B.A. (Hons), University of Ghana, 2006

AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: Public Sector Economics, Development Economics, Public Choice and Intergovernmental transfers, Applied macroeconomic modelling, Taxation and government expenditure analysis.

Regular Courses Taught:
• Graduate Level
ECON 603 – Macroeconomics I
ECON 607 – Public Finance I
ECON 608 – Public Finance II
EPMP 673 – Mathematics and Statistics for Policy

• Undergraduate
ECON 211 – Elements of Economics I
ECON 212 – Elements of Economics I
ECON 317 – Economic Growth & Development I
ECON 318 – Economic Growth & Development II
ECON 453 – Public Finance I
ECON 454 – Public Finance II

Publication
Refereed Journal Articles

1.Fumey A. & Bekoe W. (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/JIMBF.2023.v04i02.01.

2.Fumey, A., Nketiah-Amponsah, E. (2022). Effects of Import Tax Expenditure on Revenue Mobilisation in Ghana. _Journal of _Smart Economic Growth . 7(2),1 - 31.

3.Fumey, A., Egwaikhide 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 _Research , 8(3), 82 - 106.

4.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.

5. Agyeman-Boaten, S. Y., Fumey, A. & Norman B. S. (2022). Impact evaluation of households participation in agriculture on welfare in Ghana. African Social Science and Humanities Journal , 3(3), 1 - 21.

6.Agyeman-Boaten, 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 Sefwi Akontombra district. SN Business & Economics, (2021) 1:149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-021-00152-8

7. 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.

8. Ofori, S. M., Fumey, A. & Nketiah-Amponsah E. (2020). Forecasting Value Added Tax Revenue in Ghana. Journal of Economics and Financial Analysis, 4(2) pp 63-99.

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. 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.

Book Chapter(s)

16. 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.

Working Paper(s)

17. 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

Abel Fumey
Senior Lecturer and Examinations Officer
M. Phil, PhD (Economics)
Interests: 
Public Sector Economics, Development Economics, Public Choice and Intergovernmental transfers, Applied macroeconomic modelling, Taxation and government expenditure analysis.