CURRICULUM VITAE GEORGE ADU

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE GEORGE ADU Lecturer/Assistant Professor Department of Economics Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana / / Tel: / DATE OF BIRTH: March 3, 1977 NATIONALITY: Ghanaian PERSONAL EDUCATION: INSTITUTION DEGREE DATE Swedish Univ. of Agric. Sciences, Uppsala Ph.D May, 2012 Umea University, Umea, Sweden MSc. June, 2005 Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Sci. & Tech, Ksi, Gh. M.A. June, 2006 Kwame Nkrumah Univ. of Sci. & Tech, Ksi, Gh. B.A. June, 2002 TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS: Studies on Economic Growth and Inflation: Theory and Empirics PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE ACADEMIC POSITIONS May- July, 2014 Visiting Scholar, Wits Business School, Univ. of Wits, South Africa 2006 present Lecturer, Department of Economics, KNUST, Kumasi Doctoral Researcher, Department of Economics, SLU, Uppsala Part-Time Lecturer, Garden City University College, Kumasi Lecturer, Catholic University College of Ghana, Sunyani Graduate Assistantship, Department of Economics, KNUST, Kumasi Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, KNUST, Kumasi

2 FIELDS OF INTEREST Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Development, Environmental and Resource Economics, Financial Economics, Applied Econometrics, Development Finance. COURSES TAUGHT 2012 present Macroeconomics (Graduate Level) 2012 present Advanced Economic Theory (Undergraduate Level) 2012 present Financial Economics (Undergraduate Level) Mathematical Economics (Undergraduate) Introduction to Mathematics for Economists (Undergraduate) THESIS SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE PhD Thesis Supervision: Currently principal supervisor of 3 PhD candidates Currently deputy supervisor of 4 PhD candidates MPhil Thesis Supervision: Supervised 11 students since 2006 BA Economics Dissertation: Supervised over 30 students since 2006 STATSITICAL & ECONOMETRIC PACKAGES Stata, Eviews, Microfit, R PHD LEVEL COURSES TAKEN Mathematics I & II Microeconomics I & II Macroeconomics I & II Econometrics I & II Natural Resource Economics The Economics of the Environment Topics in Environmental Economics Growth, Technical Change and Institutions Economic Methodology Nonparametric Econometrics Stated Preference Methods SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND GRANTS A Regional Analysis of Inflation Dynamics in Ghana: Persistence, Causes and Policy Implications (IGC, LSE, London, Feb July 2014) The Nexus between Climate Change and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (AERC/UNU-WIDER Grant Project, ) Graduate Scholarship in Economics, Department of Economics, SLU ( ). SIDA Scholarship for a PhD course in Natural Resource Economics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden (February-March; 2008). PUBLICATIONS Directed technical change, technology adoption and the resource curse hypothesis (Forthcoming, Prague Economic Papers) (2014) [with P. B. Frimpong], Population Health and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Panel Cointegration Analysis, Journal of African Business, 15, (2013) [with G. Marbuah, and J. T. Mensah], Financial Development and Economic Growth in Ghana: Does the Measure of Financial Development Matter, Review of Development Finance, 3,

3 (2013) Effects on growth of environmental policy in a small open economy, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 15, (2013) Determinants of Economic Growth in Ghana: Parametric and non-parametric investigations, Journal of Developing Areas, 47 (2), (2012)[with G. Marbuah, J. T. Mensah and P. B. Frimpong], Macroeconomic Development and Stock Market Performance in Ghana: A Non-Parametric Approach, Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 55 (3), (2012) [With Paul Alagidede] Modern macroeconomics: A review of the post 2008/2009 crisis debate, African Review of Economics and Finance, 4 (1), (2012), [with G. Marbuah, and J. T. Mensah], Contribution of agriculture to tropical deforestation: a theoretical investigation, African Review of Economics and Finance, 3 (2), 1-12 (2011), [with George Marbuah], Determinants of inflation in Ghana: an empirical investigation, South African Journal of Economics, 79, (2009), On the theory of optimal depletion of exhaustible resources: the case of oil in Ghana, African Review of Economics and Finance, 1, WORKING PAPER PUBLICATIONS (2014) [with P. Alagidede and P. B. Frimpong], The Effect of Climate Change on Economic Growth: Evidence from sub-saharan Africa, UNU-WIDER Working Paper, No. 017 (2013) [with J. T. Mensah], An Empirical Analysis of Household Energy Choice in Ghana, No. 6, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden. (2013)[with G. Marbuah, J. T. Mensah and P. B. Frimpong], Macroeconomic Development and Stock Market Performance in Ghana: A Non-Parametric Approach, EERI Research Paper Series, No. 1 (2011) Effect on Growth of Environmental Policy in a Small Open Economy, No. 3, Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden PAPERS UNDER REVIEW Natural resource abundance and economic growth: the case of Ghana (Under review, Journal of Resources Policy) (with J.T. Mensah) An Empirical Analysis of Household Energy Choice in Ghana (Under Review, Energy for Sustainable Development) [with P.B. Frimpong& Samuel E.Y. Brew], Financial Development, Political Institution and Economic Growth: Panel Data Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (Under Review: Review of Development Finance) [with P. Alagidede and P. B. Frimpong] The effect of climate change on economic growth: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa (Under Review, African Development Review) [With A. Karimu and J.T. Mensah], What matters for the preference for LPG as a cooking fuel among Ghanaian Households? A semi-parametric estimates (Under Review, Energy Economics) WORK IN PROGRESS [with Paul Alagidede] Climate, Technology and Long-Run Growth (with P. Alagidede) Effect on Growth of Climate Change in sub-saharan Africa: A nonparametric investigation. (with P. Alagidede and Justice Tei Mensah) Does Financial Development Complement

4 International Capital Inflows in Driving Growth in Ghana (with P. Alagidede) Stock Return Distributions in Emerging and Frontier Markets (with P. Alagidede) Effect of Income on Carbon Dioxide Emission in sub-saharan Africa: Nonparametric evidence (with P. Alagidede) Finance, Infrastructure and Economic Growth in sub-saharan Africa Adu, G. Cursed or Blessed by Resources: The Direction of Technical Change in Capital- Resource Economy [withtwerefuo, D. K., Mensah, J. T. and P. B. Frimpong], Effect of Climate Change on Cereal Production in West Africa: A Panel Cointegration Analysis INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS National Consultant for the joint UNEP- UNIDO project on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production financing in Ghana ( to ) UNDP Consultant for the Project Using the Extractive Sector to Enhance Ghana s Human Development: the Case of Mining CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS PRESENTATIONS June 2011: Nordic Conference on Development Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark March 2011: 25th Anniversary CSAE Conference: Economic development in Africa, Oxford University, United Kingdom July 2010: 4TH Workshop on Energy and Environmental Economics: Green Tax Reforms, Vigo, Spain June 2010: 17thUlvon Conference on Environmental Economics, Ulvon, Sweden September 2008:AERC 20th Anniversary Conference on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change in Africa 15th-17th September, 2009, Nairobi, Kenya (Paper was presented on my behalf by Mr. Prince FrimpongBoakye ) June 2007: Participant, AERC Subject Specialist Workshop on Game Theory and Information Economics, Nairobi, Kenya, 20th -22nd June 2007 EDITORIAL ASSIGNMENTS Associate Editor, African Review of Economics and Finance 1. Professor Yves Surry Department of Economics Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences P. O. Box 7013 SE-75007, Uppsala, Sweden Yves.Surry@slu.se 2. Professor Clas Eriksson School of Business Society and Engineering Division of Business and Social Sciences P. O. Box 883 SE Vasteras, Sweden REFEREES

5 3. Professor Paul Alagidede Graduate School of Business Administration University of the Witwatersrand P.O.Box 98 Parktown 2050, Johannesburg Republic of South Africa