Prof. Samuel Agyei-Ampomah

Prof. Samuel Agyei-Ampomah

PhD in Finance, University of Strathclyde, UK
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Bio

Professor Samuel Agyei-Ampomah is a distinguished finance scholar with over 25 years of experience in academia and educational leadership. Most recently, he served as the Foundation Dean of the School of Technology and Social Sciences at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA). His previous roles include Dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at GIMPA, Reader in Finance at Cranfield School of Management, and Senior Lecturer at Surrey Business School. Prof. Agyei-Ampomah’s research expertise encompasses corporate finance, financial markets, asset pricing, and portfolio management, with publications in several top-ranked finance journals.

Areas of Interest

  • Banking regulation and bank performance
  • Empirical corporate finance (e.g. cost of capital, financing and payout decisions, corporate governance and firm performance)
  • Financial literacy and financial inclusion
  • Financial markets and asset price dynamics (e.g. excess volatility, interlinkages in bond, interest rate, exchange rates and equity markets)
  • Interactions between the stock market and other asset classes (e.g. the impact of stock option listing on the underlying stocks; use of commodities as a hedge against stocks and bonds; exchange rates and stock returns)
  • Performance of managed funds.

Discipline

  • Finance