Lesson and Impressions of the Ghanaian Capital Markets

Abstract

This project aims to discover underlying metrics that describe Frontier Capital Markets through a network-basedanalysis of Capital Market development and stability. This will be done modeling how Frontier markets succeedand fail through large-scale quasi-experiments. In undeveloped Capital Markets, achievement of the FrontierCapital Market designation is an initial step for access to Foreign Direct Investment. Global investment encouragedby the presence of a well-established and liquid Capital Market can promote stability, and consequentially, reducethe probability of international military intervention or shorten the requirement for military involvement. TheInternational Monetary broadly defines Financial stability as the financials systems ability to facilitate anefficient allocations of economic resources, to promote the effectiveness of other economic processes (such aswealth accumulation, economic growth, and ultimately social prosperity),

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 31, 2011
Accession Number
AD1019483

Entities

People

  • Daniel Evans
  • Iain Cruickshank
  • Salvatore Minopoli

Organizations

  • United States Military Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Economic Development
  • Economic Systems
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Ghana
  • Governments
  • Industrial Research
  • National Politics
  • Network Science
  • Personnel Management
  • Small Business
  • Social Media
  • Social Networks
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Economics

Readers

  • Economics
  • Research Science/Academic Research