Faculty Profile

Vera Ogeh

Fiador

Title: 

Prof

Role/Position: 

Associate Professor

Office Location: 

RT 1

Email: 

vsoli@ug.edu.gh

Biography: 

Vera Fiador is an Associate Professor of Finance at the University of Ghana Business School, Department of Finance. She holds a PhD in Finance from the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town, South Africa. She handles undergraduate and graduate level courses in the Department. Her expertise lies in the areas of corporate governance, corporate finance, gender diversity, enterprise risk management, environmental and social risk management. She has a number of peer-reviewed publications to her name and has also consulted for a number of reputable entities including the GIZ, IFC, SNV, OPM-GOGIG, KAIPTC, NBSSI and delivered a number of capacity building programmes for banks in Ghana.

Vera’s extension services encompass her roles on corporate boards, and among others, Vera is currently a director and senior consultant with Madeolo Consult (a Management Consulting and Training firm). Vera’s current consulting portfolio spans business and financial literacy, financial strategy development and interventions. Vera provides corporate training in the areas of Finance and Investment. She has also developed and mounted several training programmes targeted at small businesses. Vera is a member of the African Economic Research Consortium and was a visiting Scholar at the IMF, Washington DC.

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Research

Research : 

Mrs. Fiador’s research interests span a broad array of issues in the area of Economic Growth and Development Finance, Earnings Management as well as Growth and Productivity effects of Government fiscal and monetary Policies.

Journal Publications

Journal Publications: 

Alhassan, A. L. and Fiador, V., (2014) Insurance-growth nexus in Ghana: An autoregressive distributed lag bounds cointegration approach. Corrected Proof in Press: Review of Development Finance, Elsevier DOI: 10.1016/j.rdf.2014.05.003

Fiador, V. (2013) “Corporate Governance and Value Relevance of Accounting Information- Evidence from the Ghana Stock Exchange” Journal of Corporate Governance, Vol. 13 Iss:2, Pp 208-217

Fiador V. and Asare F. J. (2012) Cross-Border Investments, Currency Risks and Portfolio Returns: The Case of Epack-Ghana International Business Research . Vol. 6 No.1, Pp 137-144

Fiador, V., Abor, P. A. and Abor, J. (2012) How do we Explain Corporate Board Structure in Sub-Saharan Africa? International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics, Vol. 7 No. 2, Pp 118-138

Fiador, V., (2012) Determinants of Financial Governance Practices-Evidence from NGOs in Ghana International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. Vol. 33 No. 1 / 2, Pp 114-130

Abor, J. and Fiador V.( 2012) Does Corporate Governance Explain Dividend Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa? International Journal of Law and Management., 55(3), 3-3, Pp 201-225

Soli, V. O., Harvey, S., and Hagan, E. (2008) Fiscal Policy, Private Investment and Economic Growth- The Case of Ghana Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 25(2), pp.112 – 130.

History

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