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The study assesses the impact of mergers and acquisitions on company financial performance in Malawi, using panel data from 21 companies from five industries observed for 14 years using System Generalized Method of Moments technique. The results indicate a negative significant impact of mergers and acquisitions on company performance, which supp... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2023
Author: Pias, Charles Supervisor(s): Ronald Mangani , Regson ChawezaThis study aims to determine whether there is any empirical support for limiting domestic borrowing to reduce upside inflationary pressures in Malawi, as suggested by a new orthodox neoclassical inflation theory such as the Fiscal Theory of Price Level (FTPL). The study investigates the short run and long-term effects of total domestic governmen... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2023
Author: Gondwe, Misozi Kazembe Supervisor(s): Ronald ManganiThere has been a persisitent increase in the stock of Malawi government’s total public debt, rising from MK177.3 billion (28.6 % of nominal GDP) in 2007 to MK4,538.3 billion (69.7 percent of GDP) as at end of 2020. This raises concerns over both sustainability and possible crowding-out of the country’s private investment given a corresponding ri... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2022
Author: Sadala, Daucilous Supervisor(s): Ronald ManganiThe twin deficits hypothesis asserts that a reduction in the budget deficit causes a reduction in the current account deficit. The Keynesian hypothesis proposes that the causality runs from budget deficits to current account deficits. However; conflicting theories have been proposed, arguing that possibility exists of reverse causality from curr... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2014
Author: Kamwana, Tayamika Thandi Supervisor(s): Ronald Mangani , Ben KaluwaThis study was undertaken to find out if the macroeconomic variables and institutions can account for stock market development and volatility on the Malawi Stock Exchange. The study employs a GARCH (1, 1) model with quarterly data from 1996q4 to 2012q1. The empirical results indicate that macroeconomic variables and institutional factors have si... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2013
Author: Chijere, Chimwemwe Supervisor(s): Ronald ManganiThis study provides empirical evidence on the existence of a long run equilibrium relationship between inflation and its covariates in Malawi using the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration. The study uses monthly data for the period January, 2002 to December, 2010 and reveals that money supply, maize prices, industrial production, South... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2012
Author: Maganga, Owen Supervisor(s): Ronald Mangani , Ben KaluwaThe study examines the factors that influence a household’s likelihood of facing credit constraints in formal credit markets in Malawi using cross section data from the 2008 Finscope Survey. Following a direct approach and employing logit model suggested by Jappelli (1990), the study has been able to investigate the factors that influence credit... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2011
Author: Banda, Benjamin Bisa Supervisor(s): Ronald ManganiDue to a growing interest among economists in financial development as a key driver of economic growth and poverty reduction, the economy of Malawi, just like other developing countries, has taken a number of efforts in trying to improve the performance the financial sector. At the same, efforts to open up the country for trade have not been com... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2008
Author: Chipala, Esmie Koriheya Supervisor(s): Ronald Mangani , Exley SilumbuThis dissertation presents essays on the Malawian banking sector. The first essay examines Malawian business cycles and banks’ asset allocation strategies. The analysis indicates that banking sector shocks from public debt financing explain short- and long-term output changes in Malawi. This research shows that domestic banking sector public deb... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Doctoral Thesis Issue year: 2025
Author: Kumwenda, Thomson Nelson Supervisor(s): Ronald Mangani , Jacob MazalaleMany studies have attempted identifying the determinants of capital flight in the Sub Sahara African region. Most of them have focused on testing the portfolio choice theory while assuming that capital inflows meant for public investment are diverted by political elites and politically exposed persons and firms to foreign countries’ bank account... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2023
Author: Magombo, John Hatman Supervisor(s): Exley Silumbu , Ronald ManganiThis study provides empirical evidence on the existence of a long run equilibrium relationship between the effects of monetary policy on stock market performance in Malawi using the ARDL bounds testing approach to cointegration. The study uses monthly data for the period November, 1996 to April, 2012. The study reveals that in the short run it i... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2013
Author: Kumwenda, Thomson Nelson Supervisor(s): Ben Kaluwa , Ronald ManganiThe study used multivariate vector autoregressive model (VAR) to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth, and assess the determinants of FDI inflows in Uganda for the periods between 1970 and 2010. Interpretations of results are based on Granger-Causality and innovation accounting (variance decomposition and ... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2012
Author: Odongo, Maxwell Supervisor(s): Exley Silumbu , Ronald ManganiAgriculture has been and still is Malawi’s main sector of the economy. It contributes about 40% of the country’s GDP and about 83% and 79% of exports and employment respectively. Realizing this, the government has identified tobacco, suga cane and tea as the major crops which should be developed as one of the growth and development strategies’ k... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2008
Author: Tchereni, Betchani Mbuyampunga Supervisor(s): Ephraim Chirwa , Ronald ManganiIn this study, the demand for real money M1 and M2 is estimated for Uganda covering the period 1980-2004 on a quarterly basis. The modelling takes place within the framework of the ordinary least squares (OLS) single equation estimation method. The choice of this single equation estimation technique was because it is simple to use and it has bee... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2006
Author: Muhofa, Hamala Denis Supervisor(s): Exley Silumbu , Ronald ManganiThis study has examined the effects of Government policy and Commodity price shocks on private investment in Kenya. Due to non-stationarity of the variables in the model and the existence of a cointegrating relation, an error correction mechanism was used. The estimated long-run results indicate that real GDP growth rate, real lending interest r... Read more
School: School of Law, Economics and Government
Research type: Master Thesis Issue year: 2006
Author: Musengele, Benedict Musili Supervisor(s): Chinyamata Chipeta , Ronald ManganiAwards
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