School of Finance and Management

Professor Victor Murinde

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Roles: Centre for Global Finance Director School of Finance and Management AXA Professor in Global Finance Centre for Sustainable Finance Senior Fellow
Department: School of Finance and Management
Qualifications: BA (Mak), MSc (Wales), PhD (Wales), Doctoris Honoris Causa (Tallinn)
Building: Russell Square: College Buildings
Office: 541
Email address: v.murinde@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number: 020 7898 4057

Biography

Principal Investigator of the DFID-ESRC Research Grant (ES/N013344/2) on “Inclusive Finance” for £2.5 million, for 2016-2021, leading a consortium of: SOAS University of London; Loughborough University; Institute for Development Studies (IDS); University of Birmingham; University of Nottingham; ODI London; University of Groningen; Laval University; University of Ghana, Legon; & the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC).
Co-Investigator on the ESRC-ICSSR project (Grant Ref: ES/T016213/1), 2021–2024, on “UK-India Bilateral Trade in FinTech and FinTech-Enabled Services: Emerging trends and potential for growth”.
Co-Investigator on the ESRC-NSCF project (Grant Ref: ES/P005241/1), 2017-2021, on "Developing financial systems to support sustainable growth in China – The role of innovation, diversity and financial regulation”.
Governing Council member, The British Institute in Eastern Africa, 2018-2023.
Past Chair (2015-2018) and Member (2019-2023), Econometric Society Africa Regional Standing Committee.
Previously, founding Director, African Development Institute at the African Development Bank (2011-2014).
Lecturing experience at Makerere University, Cardiff University, University of Bradford, Loughborough University and University of Manchester.
Advisory services to government, companies and international organisations including the World Bank, UN-ECA, UNCTAD, African Development Bank, BIS, and the Caribbean Development Bank.
Has received generous research grants from the ESRC, European Commission, FCDO, and Leverhulme Trust.
Current research interests include: FinTech and FinTech-enabled services; climate risk finance; digital inclusive finance; cross-border interbank markets; applications of AI and machine learning method to finance; uncertainty and dynamics in a flow-of-funds framework; bank performance, risk and regulation.

Research interests

Mega Trends in Global Finance; Inclusive Finance; Financial Institutions, Markets and Instruments; Financial Modelling & Forecasting

PhD Supervision

Name	Title
Julius Ejechi	Impact of financial technology on financial inclusion and economic growth in Africa
Zeyu Huang
Anosi Ikimalo	Fellowship amongst peers: A network analysis of interbank lending markets
Aweng Peter Majok Garang
Catherine Tuhirirwe	The impact of Chinese investment loans on sustainable economic development in Africa: Case studies of Kenya, Senegal, Uganda, and Zambia
Juliet Uluma Onyeka	How far does financial regulation help in combating financial crime during a health pandemic (COVID-19); An ethnic minority perspective.

Publications

Contact Victor

Email: v.murinde@soas.ac.uk
Telephone: 020 7898 4057

Research

School of Finance and Management & Centre for Global Finance

Developing financial systems to support sustainable growth in China: Innovation, diversity and financial regulation

Developing understanding of the Chinese financial system and its crucial role in supporting the future development and continued growth of the Chinese economy.

School of Finance and Management & Centre for Global Finance

UK-India Bilateral Trade in FinTech and FinTech-Enabled Services: Emerging trends and potential for growth

Assessing the role of fintech in the expansion of UK-India bilateral trade in goods and financial services.

School of Finance and Management & Centre for Global Finance

The Inclusive Finance project

Identifying workable policies to help make the financial sector an effective instrument in promoting financial inclusion and sustained growth in low-income countries.

School of Finance and Management & Centre for Global Finance

AXA Chair in Global Finance

Identifying and monitoring mega trends in global finance, allowing for dynamics of competitive conditions, which are engendered by the interplay between institutional economics and technological innovations.

School of Finance and Management & Centre for Global Finance

Managing climate risk and the cost of capital in climate-vulnerable countries

The first systematic analysis of the relationship between climate vulnerability and the cost of capital in developing countries

School of Finance and Management

The School of Finance and Management at SOAS University of London.

School of Finance and Management

MSc Public Policy and Management

MSc Public Policy and Management at SOAS University of London

School of Finance and Management & Alumni

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Professor Victor Murinde

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Biography

Research interests

PhD Supervision

Publications

Authored Books Open

The Free Trade Area of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

Financial sector reform and privatisation in transition economies

Trade Regime and Economic Growth

Development Banking and Finance

Macroeconomic Policy Modelling for Developing Countries

Articles Open

Private capital flows and productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa: does the capital allocation puzzle matter?

CEO power, bank risk-taking and national culture: International evidence

Mobile money, ICT, financial inclusion and growth: How different is Africa?

Fintech, financial inclusion and income inequality: A quantile regression approach

The Impact of Climate Vulnerability on Firms’ Cost of Capital and Access to Finance

Capital, risk and profitability of WAEMU banks: Does bank ownership matter?

Oil booms, bank productivity and natural resource curse in finance

Varieties of neo-colonialism: Government accounting reforms in Anglophone and Francophone Africa – Benin and Ghana compared

How does banking market power affect bank opacity? Evidence from analysts' forecasts

Bank fragility in Africa: GMM dynamic panel data evidence

Bank opacity and risk-taking: Evidence from analysts’ forecasts

Overnight interbank markets and the determination of the interbank rate: A selective survey

Financial sector policies for enterprise development in Africa

Cross-selling, switching costs and imperfect competition in British banks

Financial Development and Economic Growth: Global and African Evidence

Household portfolio behaviour: evidence from Middle East economies

Cross-border bank lending versus FDI in Africa's growth story

Dividend policy and business groups: Evidence from Indian firms

Bank Deregulation and Performance in Nigeria

Share Liquidity and Market Microstructure Reform: The Case of Screen-based Trading in Mumbai*

Capital structure and ownership: A new approach with comparative evidence from Malaysia and Thailand

Perception of risk and uncertainty and non-usage of discounted cash flow techniques by UK listed firms

The impact of tax policy on corporate debt in a developing economy: a study of unquoted Indian companies

The measurement and determinants of x-inefficiency in commercial banks in Sub-Saharan Africa

Leverage and business groups: Evidence from Indian firms

Does foreign bank entry really stimulate gross domestic investment?

Competitive conditions among the major British banks

Accounting, banking and corporate financial management in emerging economies

Company financial structures in emerging economies: Evidence from a comparative analysis of Thai and Malay companies

How do Small Firms in Developing Countries Raise Capital? Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey of Kenyan Micro and Small-Scale Enterprises

Finance for small enterprise growth and poverty reduction in developing countries

Financial sector reforms and stochastic policy simulations: A flow of funds model for India

The Inverted-U hypothesis for the effect of uncertainty on investment: Evidence from UK firms

Portfolio Behaviour in a Flow of Funds Model for the Household Sector in India

Patterns of Corporate Financing and Financial System Convergence in Europe

The Efficiency of Foreign and Domestic Banks in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence on Economies of Scale and Scope

Flow of funds: implications for research on financial sector development and the real economy

Corporate Financial Structures in India

The Implications of WTO and GATS for the Banking Sector in Africa

Open doors: Foreign participation in financial systems in developing countries

How Have the Emerging Stock Exchanges in Africa Responded to Market Reforms?

Human capital and financial development in economic growth: new evidence using the translog production function

Identifying problem banks in Sub-Saharan Africa

Does the revitalisation process really enhance stock market microstructure? Evidence from the Nairobi Stock Exchange

Volatility in the emerging stock markets in Central and Eastern Europe: Evidence on Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Slovakia

Demand uncertainty and the capital–labour ratio in Poland

Modelling the volatility in East European emerging stock markets: evidence on Hungary and Poland

Company financing, capital structure and ownership: a survey and implications for developing countries

Regulatory lessons for emerging stock markets from a century of evidence on transactions costs and share price volatility in the London Stock Exchange

Capital flight and political risk

The capital sturcture of Islamic banks unfrt the contractual obligation of profit sharing

Modelling the linkages between the financial system and macroeconomic performance in Saudi Arabia

International Financial Flows and Development : Editors' preface

The effect of financial liberalization on capital flight in African economies

Modelling the Macroeconomic Policy Framework for an Emerging Market Economy

Exchange rate and stock price interactions in emerging financial markets: evidence on India, Korea, Pakistan and the Philippines

The financial performance of the East African Development Bank: a retrospective analysis

Towards evaluating the financial performance of development banks: the East African Development Bank

Comparative aspects of the magnitude and determinants of capital flight in six Sub-Saharan African economies

Monetary and Corporate Sector Aspects of Inflation in Turkey 1972:1q -1990:4q

Modelling the potency of stabilization policy for the Solomon Islands 1978:1Q-1992:4Q

Is it Prudent for Islamic Banks to Make Investment Decisions Without the Interest Rate Instrument?

Central Bank Financing of the Budget Deficits: The CFA Franc Zone Versus Eastern Africa

The impact of monetary and fiscal policy on the stock market in Singapore

Cointegration and Granger-Causality Testing of Hypotheses on Supply-Leading and Demand-Following Finance

Financial restructuring and economic growth in Singapore

Financial development and economic growth in Singapore: demand-following or supply-leading?