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Kenneth A. Tah

Stetson School of Business, Mercer University
Verified email at mercer.edu
Cited by 125

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 …

Long memory or structural breaks: Some evidence for African stock markets

G Ngene, KA Tah, AF Darrat - Review of Financial Economics, 2017 - Elsevier
This study explores two main issues. One: How do the exchange rate and inflation rate impact
long term dependency structure of weekly returns of seven African stock markets? Two: …

[HTML][HTML] Remittances and financial access: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

KA Tah - Cogent Economics & Finance, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper empirically investigates the effects of remittances on access to financial services
in 26 Sub-Saharan African countries over the period 2004–2015. We find that remittances …

The random-walk hypothesis revisited: new evidence on multiple structural breaks in emerging markets

G Ngene, KA Tah, AF Darrat - Macroeconomics and Finance in …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We examine whether stock prices in 18 emerging markets follow random-walk or mean-reversion
processes in the presence of sudden and gradual multiple structural breaks. Our tests …

Relationship between volatility and expected returns in two emerging markets

KA Tah - Business and Economics Journal, 2013 - go.gale.com
This paper provides an insight into the stochastic behavior of monthly stock market returns
for two emerging markets--the Nairobi Stock Exchange (of Kenya) and Lusaka Stock …

Foreign trade and economic growth in South Africa

KA Tah, C Czerniak, A Levine, K Wiggin… - Asia-Pacific Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the effects of foreign trade (economic openness) on South African
economic growth. We control for the role of human capital accumulation, physical capital and …

[PDF][PDF] The Impact of Monetary and Fiscal Policies on Real Output: A Re-examination

AF Darrat, KA Tah, CL Mbanga - Business and Economics …, 2014 - researchgate.net
Research continues to investigate the relative efficacy of monetary and fiscal policies for
stabilizing the US economy, a debate that began with Anderson and Jordan’s well-known study. …

Determinants of Interest rate swap spreads: A quantile regression approach

KA Tah - Journal of Economics and Finance, 2022 - Springer
This paper analyzes whether the determinants of interest rate swap spreads are homogenous
along quantiles of conditional interest rate swap spreads. Our empirical results suggest …

The effects of securitized asset portfolio specialization on bank holding company's return, and risk

KA Tah, O Martinez - Studies in Economics and Finance, 2016 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of specialization of the securitized
assets portfolio on banks’ performance and securitization risk. In doing so, the paper …

Random walk and structural break in exchange rates

KA Tah - International Journal of Monetary Economics and …, 2018 - inderscienceonline.com
In this paper, our goal is to examine whether foreign exchange rate between the US and her
largest trading partners (China, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Europe, South Korea, UK, India …