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Doctor George Tweneboah

Economics, Management Science and Information Systems
Finance and Accounting

Job Title
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications PhD, Wits; Doctorate Degree in Finance Master of Science degree in Finance
Organisational Unit Wits Business School
Biography

Courses and Disciplines taught at WBS: 

Introductory Quantitative Analysis; Development and Entrepreneurial Finance; Economics for Business; International Business and Economics; Entrepreneurship.  

Other Teaching Experience: 

Held adjunct/sessional positions at Stellenbosch Business School, University of Cape Coast, Ghana Baptist University, and School of Construction Economics at Wits. 

Research Interests: 

Time series modelling; comovement and interdependence structure; integration of financial markets and economies; emerging market development; behaviour of equities of real estate investment trusts.

Work

Recent Publications and Scholarly Contributions: 

Tweneboah, G., Asamoah, M. E., & Owusu Junior, P. (2021). On exchange rate predictability and adaptive market hypothesis in South Africa. Journal of African Business, 1975488. (https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2021.1975488)

Ijasan, K., Owusu Junior, P., Tweneboah, G., & Adam, A. M. (2021). How does South Africa's Real Estate Investment Trusts integrate with major global REITs markets? A time-frequency approach. Scientific African, 14, e00993.  (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2021.e00993)

Owusu Junior, P., Frimpong, S., Adam, A. M., Agyei, S. K., Gyamfi, E. N., Agyapong, D., & Tweneboah, G. (2021). COVID-19 as information transmitter to global equity markets: Evidence from CEEMDAN-based transfer entropy approach. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021, 8258778. (https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8258778)

Omane-Adjepong, M., Alagidede, I. P., Lyimo, A. G., & Tweneboah, G. (2021). Herding behaviour in cryptocurrency and emerging financial markets. Cogent Economics and Finance, 9(1), 1933681.

Nsiah, A. Y., Yusif, H., Tweneboah, G., Agyei, K., & Baidoo, S. T. (2021). The effect of financial inclusion on poverty reduction in Sub-Sahara Africa: Does threshold matter? Cogent Social Sciences, 7(1), 1903138.

Owusu Junior, P., Alagidede, I. P, & Tweneboah, G. (2020). Shape-shift contagion in emerging markets equities: Evidence from frequency- and time-domain analysis. Economics and Business Letters, 9(3), 146–156.

Owusu Junior, P., Adam, A. M., & Tweneboah, G. (2020). Asymmetric connectedness of cryptocurrencies and gold returns: Evidence from frequency-dependent quantile regressions. Cogent Economics and Finance, 8(1), 1804037.

Owusu Junior, P. & Tweneboah, G. (2020). Are there asymmetric linkages between African stocks and exchange rates? Research in International Business and Finance, 54, 101245.

Tweneboah, G., Owusu Junior, P., & Seyram, K. P. (2020). Modelling the asymmetric linkages between spot gold prices and African stocks. Research in International Business and Finance, 54, 101246.

Tweneboah, G., Owusu Junior, P., & Oseifuah, E. K. (2019). Integration of major African stock markets: Evidence from multi-scale wavelets correlation. Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, 23(6), 1-15.

Ijasan, K., Tweneboah, G., Omane-Adjepong, M., & Owusu Junior, P. (2019). On the global integration of REITs market returns: A multi-resolution analysis. Cogent Economics and Finance, 7(1), 1690211.

Tweneboah, G., Gatsi, J., & Asamoah, M. E. (2019). Financial development and dollarization in Ghana: An empirical investigation. Cogent Economics and Finance, 7(1), 1663699.

Tweneboah, G. (2019). Dynamic interdependence of industrial metal price returns: Evidence from wavelet multiple correlations. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 527, 121153. 

Owusu Junior, P., Tweneboah, G., Ijasan, K., & Jeyasreedharan, N. (2019). Modelling return behaviour of global real estate investment trusts equities. Journal of European Real Estate Research, 12(3), 311-328. 

Tweneboah, G., & Alagidede, P. (2019). Dollarization, inflation targeting, and inflationary dynamics in Ghana. Journal of African Business, 20(3), 358-375.

Owusu Junior, P., Tweneboah, G., & Adam, A. M. (2019). Interdependence of major exchange rates in Ghana: A wavelet coherence analysis. Journal of African Business, 20(3), 407-430.

Tweneboah, G., & Alagidede, P. (2018). Interdependence structure of precious metal prices: A multi-scale perspective. Resources Policy, 59, 427-434.

Tweneboah, G., & Alagidede, P. (2018). Currency substitution and stability of money demand in Ghana. Journal of Developing Areas, 52(2), 4-53.

Owusu, P. J., Tweneboah, G., & Adam, A. M. (2017). Comovement of real exchange rates in the West African Monetary Zone. Cogent Economics and Finance, 5, 1-18.

Ijasan, K., Tweneboah, G., & Mensah, J. O. (2017). Anti-persistence and long memory behaviour of South African REITs. Journal of Property Investment & Finance, 35(4), 356-368.

Tweneboah, G., Agyapong, D., & Frimpong, S. (2016). Economic integration and exchange rate behaviour in the West African Monetary Zone. African Finance Journal, 18(1), 53-80.