Prof. Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu
Designation
Dean, Business School
Staff Grade
Associate Professor
Department
Department of Banking Technology and Finance
Faculty
Business School
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Prof. Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu is currently a senior lecturer in banking and finance at the Banking Technology and Finance Department of Kumasi Technical University, Ghana. He completed his PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, one of Africa's pride in the league of top universities in the world. His doctoral work investigated monetary policy characterization and transmission effectiveness at the national and regional levels in inflation targeting context. He holds an MSc in Finance and Management from Cranfield University's School of Management, one of UK's elite business schools. He also holds a BA in Economics and Law from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Prior to joining Kumasi Technical University, he had worked as a Financial Services Researcher at WWCP Limited in the UK where he co-authored several treasury management manuals for multinational banks and other international institutions such as JP Morgan Chase, Association for Financial Professionals (AFP), Industrial & Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and Santander. He was also part of the research team at WWCP Limited that researched and compiled a world-class finance and treasury management handbook for the Africa operations of Barclays Bank UK in collaboration with ABSA Bank of South Africa in 2012. At WWCP Limited, he was in charge of research on countries in Africa, Middle East and some parts of Asia. His research also focused on the macroeconomic environment of the various countries covered, treasury and cash management practices, banking sector performances, M&A activities, payment systems and regulatory frameworks of various financial markets. Prof. Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu also came to Kumasi Technical University with extensive banking sector experience in Ghana, having worked as Credit Analyst and Account Relationship Officer respectively at CAL Bank Limited where he also did his national service.

His research articles have been published in high-profile peer-reviewed journals, including but not limited to, Food Policy, Central Bank Review, African Development Review, Quality and Quantity and Global Business and Economics Review. Prof. Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu has also published (by Routledge) a book on monetary policy and food inflation in emerging and developing economies and a book chapter (by Palgrave Macmillan) on monetary policy and price stability in Ghana. Prof. Abdul-Aziz Iddrisu's research interest spans monetary policy, banking sector efficiency and stability, international finance, foreign direct investment, development finance, corporate finance, health economics and other related areas.

  • PhD in Finance: University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
  • MSc in Finance and Management: Cranfield University, UK.
  • BA Economics and Law: KNUST
  • monetary policy
  • banking sector efficiency and stability
  • international finance
  • foreign direct investment
  • development finance
  • corporate finance
  • health economics and other related areas.
  • Examiner and Assessor for SD Dombo University in Wa.
  • Assessor for Tamale Technical University in Tamale.
  • National Treasurer, TUTAG.
  • Consultant for African Development Bank
  • Consultant for African Review of Economics and Finance
  • African Review of Economics and Finance, Johannesburg, South Africa, August 2019.
  • ICAST, Kumasi Technical University, Kumasi, Ghana, March 2023.

Book

  • Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2021) Monetary policy and food inflation in emerging and developing economies. Routledge, Taylor & Francis.

 

Book Chapter

  • Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2022) Monetary policy and price stability in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: have the dues been paid? In: Amin, A.A., Tawah, R.N. & Ntembe, A. (eds) Monetary and Financial Systems in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.

 

Peer Reviewed Journal

  1. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2020). Monetary policy and food inflation in South Africa: A quantile regression analysis. Food Policy, 91, 101816.
  2. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2020). Revisiting interest rate and lending channels of monetary policy transmission in the light of theoretical prescriptions. Central Bank Review, 20(4), 183 – 192.
  3. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2020) Is the interest rate setting behaviour of the Bank of Ghana constrained by high debt levels? African Development Review, 32(3), 459 – 471.
  4. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2021). Heterogeneous provincial prices and monetary policy in South Africa: A wavelet-based quantile regression analysis. Central Bank Review, 21, 87 – 103.
  5. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2021) Estimating Bank of Ghana’s policy responses in the context of Taylor rule: is the inflation target realistic? Cogent Economics and Finance, 9(1), 1988201.
  6. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2021). Does high public debt level constrain the interest rate setting behaviour of the South African Reserve Bank? African Review of Economics and Finance.
  7. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2021) Asymmetry in food price responses to monetary policy: A quantile regression approach. SN Business and Economics, 1:52.
  8. Iddrisu, A. A., & Alagidede, I. P. (2021) Is the monetary policy behaviour of the South African Reserve Bank nonlinear? Global Business and Economics Review, Vol. 24, No. 2.
  9. Ruzima, M., Boachie, M.K., Polajeva, T. & Iddrisu, A.A. (2022). Does the Fisher effect hold in Rwanda? Quality and Quantity, 1 – 16. 
  10. Immurana, M., Iddrisu, A.A., Mohammed, Z. & Mathew, K.K.T.J. (2022). Access to basic drinking water and sanitation in Africa: Does financial inclusion matter? Cogent Social Sciences, 8(1), 2057057.
  11. Immurana, M., Iddrisu, A. A., Boachie, M. K. & Dalaba, M.A. (2021). Financial inclusion and population health in Africa. Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, 1 – 16.
  12. Immurana, M., Iddrisu, A. A., & Boachie, M. K. (2021). The effects of tobacco taxation and pricing on the prevalence of smoking in Africa. Global Health Research and Policy, 6:14.
  13. Oware, K.M. & Iddrisu, A.A. (2021). Moral capital of CSR and firm performance: does a shift from voluntary to mandatory policy matter in an Indian context? Society and Business Review.
  14. Oware, K.M., Iddrisu, A.A., Worae, T. & Adaletey, J.E. (2021). Female and environmental disclosure of family and non-family firms. Evidence from India. Management Research Review.
  15.  Immurana, M., Iddrisu, A. A., & Boachie, M. K. (2020). Does taxation on harmful products influence population health? Evidence from Africa using the dynamic panel system GMM approach. Quality & Quantity, 1-13.