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Geoffrey Ngene

Associate Professor of Financial Economics, Mercer University
Verified email at mercer.edu
Cited by 461

Stock returns, trading volume, and volatility: The case of African stock markets

GM Ngene, AN Mungai - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2022 - Elsevier
The presence of the African Stock Markets (ASMs) in the global frontier markets indices
confirms their global portfolio diversification role. This study investigates the asymmetric and …

Does Bitcoin still own the dominant power? An intraday analysis

J Wang, GM Ngene - International Review of Financial Analysis, 2020 - Elsevier
The study investigates the intraday dynamics and price patterns of the primary cryptocurrencies.
The Granger Mackey-Glass (MG) model is employed to examine the asymmetric and …

What drives dynamic connectedness of the US equity sectors during different business cycles?

GM Ngene - The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2021 - Elsevier
The study investigates (i) the time-varying and directional connectedness of nine equity
sectors through intra- and inter-sector volatility spillover periods and (ii) assesses the impact of …

How are policy uncertainty, real economy, and financial sector connected?

GM Ngene, KA Tah - Economic Modelling, 2023 - Elsevier
Frequent economic policy adjustments increase economic policy uncertainty. Recent studies
show that policy uncertainty has contractionary effects on real investment. We conduct a …

Financial liberalization and foreign bank entry on the domestic banking performance in MENA countries

MK Hassan, B Sanchez, GM Ngene… - African Development …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines the impact of financial liberalization and foreign bank entry on the
domestic banking sector from 1996 to 2007, and builds upon and expands the work of Lee (2002)…

Time-varying and spatial herding behavior in the US housing market: Evidence from direct housing prices

GM Ngene, DP Sohn, MK Hassan - The Journal of Real Estate Finance …, 2017 - Springer
This paper investigates herding behavior in the US residential housing market. The sample
period is 1975 M01 to 2015 M06. The study utilizes the housing price index of each of the 50 …

Scales and technical efficiencies in Middle East and North African (MENA) micro financial institutions

M Kabir Hassan, B Sanchez, G Ngene - International Journal of …, 2012 - emerald.com
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate technical and scales efficiencies of
MFIs in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in provision of financial services. This …

Credit default swaps and sovereign debt markets

MK Hassan, GM Ngene, JS Yu - Economic Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
This study investigates the link between the price discovery dynamics in sovereign credit
default swaps (CDS) and bond markets and the degree of financial integration of emerging …

Price discovery process in the emerging sovereign CDS and equity markets

GM Ngene, MK Hassan, N Alam - Emerging Markets Review, 2014 - Elsevier
We model two regimes using threshold cointegration and threshold vector error correction
model for sovereign CDS and equity markets of thirteen emerging markets. We document …

Arbitrage opportunities and feedback trading in regulated bitcoin futures market: An intraday analysis

GM Ngene, J Wang - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
The study uses 5-min intraday Bitcoin futures and spot prices to investigate the additive and
multiplicative impact of arbitrage opportunities on feedback trading in the Bitcoin futures …