Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in Ghana

This study examines the impact of key macroeconomic variables on mutual funds’ financial performance in Ghana. We employ the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimation of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to analyze the macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds in Ghana for the period 2007–20...

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Main Authors: Adjei Gyamfi Gyimah, Bismark Addai, George Kwasi Asamoah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2021-01-01
Series:Cogent Economics & Finance
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2021.1913876
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description This study examines the impact of key macroeconomic variables on mutual funds’ financial performance in Ghana. We employ the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimation of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to analyze the macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds in Ghana for the period 2007–2016. The study documents homogenous long-run significant positive impacts of exchange rate, inflation, T-Bill, GDP growth on mutual funds’ financial performance, and a homogeneous long-run negative significant impact of monetary policy rate on the financial performance of mutual funds. The study also establishes heterogeneous short-run respective significant negative and positive impacts of T-Bill and monetary policy on mutual fund’s financial performance. Unlike many previous studies that used stock data to estimate mutual funds’ performance, accounting data is used in this study. Second, we incorporate monetary policy rate in our study variables since most of the prior studies ignored that variable. Finally, the outcome of our study contributes to existing knowledge on the short-run and long-run effects of macroeconomic variables on the financial performance of mutual funds from the perspectives of a developing country.
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spelling doaj.art-7afed42df55a4bbabd856e9ae87a22652022-12-22T04:04:25ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Economics & Finance2332-20392021-01-019110.1080/23322039.2021.19138761913876Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in GhanaAdjei Gyamfi Gyimah0Bismark Addai1George Kwasi Asamoah2German International Cooperation (GIZ)Changsha University of Science and TechnologyFrontline Capital AdvisorsThis study examines the impact of key macroeconomic variables on mutual funds’ financial performance in Ghana. We employ the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimation of the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model to analyze the macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds in Ghana for the period 2007–2016. The study documents homogenous long-run significant positive impacts of exchange rate, inflation, T-Bill, GDP growth on mutual funds’ financial performance, and a homogeneous long-run negative significant impact of monetary policy rate on the financial performance of mutual funds. The study also establishes heterogeneous short-run respective significant negative and positive impacts of T-Bill and monetary policy on mutual fund’s financial performance. Unlike many previous studies that used stock data to estimate mutual funds’ performance, accounting data is used in this study. Second, we incorporate monetary policy rate in our study variables since most of the prior studies ignored that variable. Finally, the outcome of our study contributes to existing knowledge on the short-run and long-run effects of macroeconomic variables on the financial performance of mutual funds from the perspectives of a developing country.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2021.1913876macroeconomicmutual fundfinancial performanceautoregressive distributed lag (ardl)pooled mean group (pmg)
spellingShingle Adjei Gyamfi Gyimah
Bismark Addai
George Kwasi Asamoah
Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in Ghana
Cogent Economics & Finance
macroeconomic
mutual fund
financial performance
autoregressive distributed lag (ardl)
pooled mean group (pmg)
title Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in Ghana
title_full Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in Ghana
title_fullStr Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in Ghana
title_full_unstemmed Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in Ghana
title_short Macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in Ghana
title_sort macroeconomic determinants of mutual funds performance in ghana
topic macroeconomic
mutual fund
financial performance
autoregressive distributed lag (ardl)
pooled mean group (pmg)
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2021.1913876
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