Technical efficiency: the pathway to credit union cost efficiency in Ghana

Benjamin Amoah holds a PhD degree in Finance and is Lecturer at the Department of Banking and Finance at the Central Business School, Central University, Accra, Ghana. His research interest includes investment fraud, financial institutions management, cooperative studies with special emphasis on credit unions, efficiency, risk in financial institutions, financial literacy, pension and retirement planning.

Dr Kwaku Ohene-Asare holds a PhD degree in Operations Research and Management Science and is Economics Lecturer at the University of Ghana Business School. He holds a PhD degree from Warwick Business School, the University of Warwick. He previously taught in the Economics Department and Warwick Business School at the Warwick University and is now Associate Fellow with them. Areas of teaching interest include data envelopment analysis, operations research and management science techniques.

Professor Godfred Alufar Bokpin is currently Head at the Department of Finance. His research focuses on macro-finance linkages, market microstructure, asset pricing, fiscal policy or monetary interaction, economic and firm-level governance, disclosure and transparency. Professor Bokpin investigates issues with funding mostly from African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), African Development Bank, Canadian Government and University of Ghana as well as Corporate Ghana.

Anthony Q.Q. Aboagye is currently Associate Professor and former Head of the Department of Finance, University of Ghana Business School. He received PhD in Finance from McGill University. He also holds an MBA degree from the University of Toronto, an MA degree from York University, Canada and a BSc degree from the University of Ghana. Professor Aboagye is an active consultant. A partial list of his clients includes: Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning and the Ministry of Trade and Industries, Ghana, USAID, Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Stock Exchange.