Williams Ohemeng is an Associate Professor of Financial and Development Economics at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
(GIMPA) in Accra, Ghana, where he also serves as Head of Department of the Economics and Hospitality Studies since September 2021. He has worked as a Research Intern at the West African Monetary Institute (WAMI), served previously as a visiting scholar at the University of Ghana Business School, University of Professional Studies, Accra; and presently serves on various University Administration Committees.
Williams has consulted for various institutions; World Bank, Hunger Project, UNDP, CODESRIA, UNU-WIDER and the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF).
He is a network member of the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Nairobi, Kenya, Africa Econometric Society (AES) and African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) led by Manchester University.

His research focus is generally in the area of development finance and financial economics with specific interest in informality, inclusive growth, climate change, poverty reduction, inequalities in the developing economies, firm/national level analysis of productivity growth and financial Markets. He has published widely in journals of international repute such as International Journal of Social Economics, World Development Perspectives, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Poverty and Public Policy, Health Economic Review among others, as well as contributed to book chapters.

• Financial Economics
• Econometrics
• Energy Economics
• Development Economics

• Informality and inclusive growth;
• Poverty reduction and inequality in developing countries;
• Firm/national level analysis of productivity growth;
• Futures markets and Financial Markets;
• Climate Change and structural transformation in Africa.

1. Consulting services for Conducting Research in Structural Transformation
   Domain as part of the city-level studies in Accra for African Cities Research
   Consortium (ACRC), the University of Manchester, UK in 2022 (Total Grant –
   UK 6,750)
2. Consulting Services for Project Evaluation and Preparation of Implementation
   Completion Report for the Ghana Peri-Urban Vegetable Value Chain Project
   (Gpvvcp), Gpvvcp Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Accra, Ghana, in 2021
   (Total Grant – US $26,200)
3. The Macro-Economic Impact of Two Different Industrial Development Pathways
   in Ghana” (working under the company named PLACEFEET for DNA Economics), African Center for Cities, UCT, Cape Town, South Africa, in 2020 (Total Grant – US$22,000)
4. An Assessment of child labor in the cocoa value chain in Ghana, World Bank
   with Agriculture and Food PG AFR1/Short Term Consultant, Accra, in 2020 (Total Grant – US$20,000).
5. A Review of the Contract Farming and Outgrower Schemes Under Ghana Commercial Agricultural Project (GCAP), World Bank/GCAP, Project funded by World Bank, Accra-Ghana, in 2019 (Total Grant – US$20,000).
6. Lead consultant to Hunger Project Ghana on drafting the technical and financial
   proposal on the project Rural and Agricultural Finance Programme (RAFIP). The proposal won Hunger Project Ghana US$370,000 in 2015.
7. Unmasking the factors behind socio-economic inequalities in Ghana (Principal
   investigator). Funded by UNDP Ghana, in 2014 (Total Grant – US$ 20,000).
8. Forces Promoting or Constraining the Development of Quality Assurance as a
   Governance Tool for Accountability in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs): The Case of Ghana –Institutional Grant with UPSA, in 2012, CODESRIA (Total
   Grant – US$30,000).

• African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Doctoral Degree Scholarship,
  2007
• African Economic Research Consortium/ Bill and Melinda Gate Foundation
  Thesis Grant, 2009
• Professional Affiliations
• Network Member, African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), Kenya, 2007-Present
• Member, African Econometrics Society (AES), 2012-Present
• Network Member, African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), 2022-Present, Manchester

• Econometrics (PhD, MPhil and MSc.); Financial Economics (MPhil and MSc.)
• Business Economics (MBA)
• Analytical Skills for Decision Making (MBA)
• Economics of Strategy (EMBA)
• Managerial Economics (PGDBA)
• Macroeconomics, Microeconomics (BSc).

•  Azumah, C.Y., Owusu-Ansah, A., Amewu, G. & Ohemeng, W. (2023) The effect of banking sector reforms on interest rate spread: Evidence from Ghana, Cogent Economics & Finance, 11(1). 2175463, DOI: 10.1080/23322039.2023.2175463
• Ofori-Boateng, K., Ohemeng, W., Ahawaadong, B.E. and Agyapong, E.K. (2022). Efficiency, market structure and performance of the Insurance Industry in an emerging economy. Cogent Economics and Finance, 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2022.2068784
• Ofori-Boateng, K., Ohemeng, W., Agyapong, E.K., Bribinti, B.J., (2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on stock returns of listed firms on the stock market: Ghana’s experience. African Journal of Economic and Management Studies,13 (1), 136-146. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJEMS-02-2021-0074
• Ofori-Boateng, K., Agyapong, E.A., Ohemeng, W., Annor, L.D.J., (2022). Commodity price volatility and stock market returns in an emerging economy. International Social Science Journal, 72 (244), 321-337. https://doi.org/10.1111/issj.12320
• Ohemeng, W., Agyapong, E.K. and Ofori-Boateng, K. (2021). Exchange rate and inflation dynamics: does the month or quarter of the year matter? SN Bus Econ 1, 78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43546-021-00074-5
• Danquah, M., Iddrisu, A.M., Quartey, P., Ohemeng, W. and Barimah, A. (2021). Rural Financial Intermediation and Poverty Reduction in Ghana: A micro-level analysis. Poverty and Public Policy, 13 (4), 316 – 334. https://doi.org/10.1002/pop4.324
• Tuffour, K.J., Ofori-Boateng, K., Ohemeng, W., and Akuaku, K.J. (2021). Life Insurance Companies: Determinants of Cost Efficiency and Profitability. Journal of Accounting, Business and Management 28 (2), 1 – 19. https://doi.org/10.31966/jabminternational.v28i2.501
• Ofori-Boateng, K., Adams, S., and Ohemeng, W. (2020). Coping Strategies of the Urban Poor: A Case Study from Ghana. Poverty and Public Policy,12 (3): 236-254. https://doi.org/10.1002/pop4.286
• Salisu, A.A, Adediran, I.A., Oloko, T.O. and Ohemeng, W. (2020). The heterogeneous behaviour of the inflation hedging property of cocoa. North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 51 (1). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2019.101093
• Tuffour, K.J., Ofori-Boateng, K. and Ohemeng, W. (2020). Efficiency of listed banks operations and stock price movements. International Journal of Economics and Financial, 10 (1): 219-227. https://doi.org/10.32479/ijefi.8392
• Iddrisu, A.M., Danquah, M., Quartey, P., Ohemeng, W. (2018). Gender bias in households’ educational expenditures: Does the stage of schooling matter? World Development Perspectives 10-12(1): 15-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wdp.2018.09.001
• Adeleke, A.I., Ohemeng, W., Ofori-Boateng, K. (2017). Savings, Net Foreign Assets and Current Accounts Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa. CBN Economic and Financial Review, 55 (1), 1 – 27. ISSN 1957-2968
• Abraham, A.Y, Ohemeng, F.N.A and Ohemeng, W. (2017). Female Labour Force Participation: Evidence from Ghana, International Journal of Social Economics 44 (11): 1489-1505 https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-06-2015-0159
• Danquah, M. and Ohemeng, W. (2017). Unmasking the Factors behind Income Inequalities in Ghana, International Journal of Social Economics 44 (7): 884-899 https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSE-09-2015-0250
• Ohemeng, W., Sjo, B. and Danquah, M. (2016). Market Efficiency and Price Discovery in Cocoa Futures markets, Journal of African Business, 17 (2): 209 – 224. https://doi.org/10.1080/15228916.2016.1142801
• Sede, P. and Ohemeng, W. (2015). Socio-Economic Determinants of Life Expectancy in Nigeria (1980 – 2011), Health Economic Review, 5 (2). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13561-014-0037-z
• Ohemeng, W., Sjo, B. and Danquah, M. (2015). Hedging Under Uncertainty: Optimal Price Risk Management under Transaction Costs for Cocoa Exporting Countries, African Review of Economics and Finance,7 (2) http://www.upjournals.co.za/index.phd/AREF/issue/view/21
• Danquah, M., Barimah, A. and Ohemeng, W. (2013). Regional Integration, Trade and National Efficiency in ECOWAS Countries, West Africa Economic Review, 2013, 2 (1), 65-87
• Danquah, M., Barimah, A. and Ohemeng, W. (2013). Efficiency Measurement Using a ‘True’ Random Effects and Random Parameter Stochastic Frontier Models: An Application to Rural and Community Banks in Ghana, Modern Economy, 4 (12) http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/me.2013.412093
• Baba, I., Ofori-Boateng, K. and Ohemeng, W. (2013). A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Money in Ghana, African Journal of Social Sciences, 2013, 3(2): 19-29.
• Sede, P.I. and Ohemeng, W. (2012). An Empirical Assessment of the Technical Efficiency in some Selected Hospitals in Nigeria (1980 – 2008), Journal of Business Research, 2012, 6(1& 2), 14-43
• Ahortor, C.R.K., Adenekan, A. and Ohemeng, W. (2012). An Estimate of Inflation threshold in the WAMZ: The Case of Ghana and Nigeria, West African Journal of Monetary and Economic Integration, 11 (2): 158 – 201

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E-mail: wohemeng@gimpa.edu.gh