The Stock Market and the Financing of Corporate Growth in Africa: The Case of Ghana

44 Pages Posted: 13 Nov 2006

Date Written: September 2006

Abstract

This paper examines the corporate financing pattern in Ghana. In particular, it investigates whether Singh's theoretically anomalous findings that developing country firms make considerably more use of external finance and new equity issues than developed country firms to finance asset growth hold in the case of Ghana. Replicating Singh's methodology, our results show that compared with corporations in advanced countries, the average listed Ghanaian firm finances its growth of total assets mainly from short-term debt. The stock market, however, is the most important source of long-term finance for listed Ghanaian firms. Overall, the evidence in this paper suggests that the stock market is a surprisingly important source of finance for funding corporate growth and that stock market development in Ghana has been important.

JEL Classification: G30, G32

Suggested Citation

Yartey, Charles Amo, The Stock Market and the Financing of Corporate Growth in Africa: The Case of Ghana (September 2006). IMF Working Paper No. 06/201, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=934460

Charles Amo Yartey (Contact Author)

International Monetary Fund (IMF) ( email )

700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20431
United States

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