Obumneke Bob Muoneke

• M.Sc. Lagos (Finance), B.Sc. Nig. (Banking and Finance)
• Research Associate at Semper Invictus Consult

The sacrosanct role played by small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in shaping economic realities in Europe resonates the accompanying impact of their activities on the environment. Furthermore, the unequal access to green finance across various sizes of small and medium enterprises alongside low level of bureaucratic quality in low‐income nati...

This study examines the effect of bank credit to the private sector on environmental quality (carbon emissions and carbon emission intensity) in Nigeria from 1971-2017 adopting novel dynamic ARDL simulations within framework of Stochastic Impact by Regression on Population, Affluence and Technology (STRIPAT). Controlling for the impact of fossil fu...

Objectives This study has investigated the impact of democracy on the sustainability of the environment in 52 African countries between 1990 and 2020. Methods The study utilized the ordinary least square as the baseline estimation technique, the two‐stage least square to account for endogeneity, and the quantile regression to account for existing...

At the heart of the post-COP26 era and the European Green deal lies the underlying goals in Europe targeting climate neutrality and zero pollution through tourism developments and promotion of economic well-being of regions. This study empirically investigates the dynamic linkages among tourism developments and emission while controlling for the in...

At the heart of the EU cohesion policy and the European Green deal lies the underlying sub-goals not limited to; financing the transition, promoting economic well-being of regions, take everyone along, achieving climate neutrality and a zero pollution Europe which the small and medium enterprises positions as the perfect conduit to achieve the afor...

This research investigates the potential influence of extreme exchange rate asymmetry on export commerce using the instance of leading oil and non-oil exporting African economies, namely Nigeria, Ghana, Congo, Gabon, Algeria, and Morocco, within the context of MANTARDL. In addition, the analysis disentangled the positive (appreciation) and negative...

In order to shed empirical light on the impact of the multi-dimensional decomposition of financial development indicators on renewable energy usage, this study investigates the threshold effect of political conflict on finance-energy dynamics in Africa. The research output relies on a panel of 46 African nations from 2010 to 2020, using IV-GMM esti...

Based on the fact that the EU-part of the Eastern Bloc has not fared well in transitioning to renewable energy in the last decade compared to other regions of the bloc, this study investigated the impacts of coal consumption, socioeconomic factors and bureaucracy on the environment and the moderating effect of socioeconomic factors and bureaucracy...

The age-long debate between SME-growth nexus has ignored environmental sustainability, as evident by many previous empirical studies. However, the pivotal role of SMEs and their undeniable dominance in the business landscape of Africa presents itself as a potential instrument for leading sustainability advocacy on the African continent. The study i...

The increasing human activities amidst competition for resources across the globe has made environmental challenges an ongoing classic problem, thus prompting policymakers to continually seek effective solution while ensuring sustainable development. With the wide coverage of the relevance of the double dividend hypothesis in explaining the co-bene...

There is general consensuses among scholars on the importance of international trade and foreign direct investment as a main macroeconomic variables that drive economic growth of developing countries. However, the global economic crisis plays dominant role in determining the movement of these macroeconomic variables that can change the nomenclature...

This study examines the impact of extremely small and extreme large variations in the exchange rate on export trade of selected oil-exporting countries in Africa over the period 1981Q1-2020Q4. The standard non-linear ARDL provides inconsistency among the estimates, shows the unreliable diagnostic test, and cannot account for the effects of extreme...

This study is hinged on analyzing factors such as agriculture and globalization (de jure trade and financial) that threaten a sustainable environment using two proxies of ecological footprint: carbon and noncarbon ecological footprint in the Philippines while controlling for the influence of fossil to GDP, economic growth, urban population, and fin...

In pursuance of SDG 7, 8 and 12, unearthing the substantive role of environmental-related innovations and technologies in mitigating the undesirable effects of fossil fuel dependence and natural resources consumption on the environment in selected highest performing eco-innovation economies unveils cutting edge policy options to aspiring eco-innova...

This study investigates the symmetric and asymmetric effects of FDI-growth nexus amidst financial crises, economic crises and COVID-19 pandemic s in Nigeria over the period 1983-2020. Having confirmed the long-run stable state among the variables, the symmetric estimates suggest that the FDI inflow/outflow is significantly linked with economic grow...

Based on the commitment to improve environmental quality across European Union under the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and varying national goals, this study investigates the dynamic linkages between bureaucracy, socioeconomic factors, conventional fossil fuel energy consumption vis-à-vis aggregate fossil and disaggregate fossil (oi...

Inspired by the commitment to address the environmental challenges in Peru under the UN Sustainable Development Goals 13 (Climate Action) and its implications by 2030, therefore, this study investigates the combined role of economic globalization , financial development, and fossil fuel intensity consumption using a combination of dynamic ARDL coun...

Among the new revelation in the natural resources-environment and climate change nexus literature is the criti-cality of ascending the environmental sustainability ladders of the industrialized economies such as the newly industrialized countries (NICs). This study considers the panel of top ten NICs (Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Malaysia, Philipp...

Inspired by the commitment to address the environmental challenges in Peru under the UN Sustainable Development Goals 13 (Climate Action) and its implications by 2030, therefore, this study investigates the combined role of economic globalization, financial development, and fossil fuel intensity consumption using a combination of dynamic ARDL count...

The interconnection between environmental protection and sustainable development is at the heart of discussion among all the intergovernmental agencies around the globe. Such discussion is considered highly important considering the role of finance, an abundance of fossil fuel and industrial value-added on economic activities and environmental issu...

This study explores the linear and non-linear impact of Nigeria's oil price and exchange rate on stock market performance from January 1995 to December 2019 using the non-linear autoregressive distributed lag (NARDL) method. The results from the linear ARDL show a long and short-run positive relationship between the Nigerian stock market and crude...

The need for adequate and consistent policies to mitigate the continuous rise of carbon emission have motivated the energy economist in the past decades to actively involved and explore common economic agents that are driving the rising pattern in the environmental pollution. This study is positioned towards contributing to the on-going debates on...

We examined the extent to which SMEs financing influenced economic growth in Nigeria through the use of time-series data from 1999-2018. After a literature search, other factors possessing the potential to influence the dependent variable ASGDP was added to the research model. Relying on Ordinary Least Squares estimation using E-views 10.0, finding...

This study examines the impact credit risk management has on the profitability of commercial banks in Nigeria. The main objective of this material is to show how credit risk parameters are related to the expected performance of commercial banks in Nigeria. Using the regression analysis, relationship was drawn between credit risk parameters (which i...

Financial statement evaluation and analysis is key to potential and existing investors, as this serves as the major official document published by companies that comprehensively highlight their performance for the period. In line with this, the study empirically investigated the qualitative evaluation of financial statement as a basis for investmen...