Dr Jacinta Nwachukwu

Lecturer in Finance & Banking

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• E: j.c.bottomley@salford.ac.uk
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Wednesdays 1pm to 4pm
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I was born and brought up in a village in Imo State, South Eastern Nigeria. I joined Salford University Business School in September 2008 as a lecturer in Finance and Banking. Prior to that I lectured on International Development Finance at the Manchester University Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) for two years where I directed the MSc in Development Finance.

Editorial Board:

Member of the editorial board of the Journal of African Business

Academic Reviewer:

I have acted as a referee for the following journals

• The Journal of International Business
• World Development
• Journal of African Business
• Journal of Developing Areas

Program Director:

• MSc Development Finance , The University of Manchester Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM)

 Research Funding:

• The Christopher Hale Memorial Fund Grant
• The University of Salford Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Research Scholarship
• British Academy/ACU Grant for international collaboration on research into microfinance in Imo-State, Nigeria

Current Teaching

Undergraduate

• Financial Planning and Control
• Financial Economics

Postgraduate:

• Risk Regulation and Compliance (module leader)
• International Financial Management
• Corporate Financial Strategies

Past Postgraduate teaching

•  Wealth Management and Private Banking
• Corporate Governance
• Financial Markets
• Issues in Development Finance
• International Finance for Development

My research interests cover the role of finance in economic growth and poverty reduction in highly-indebted poor countries, debt relief and sustainability, capital flight, exchange rates, structural adjustment, small and medium-scale enterprise development and micro-lending.

I have an MBA from Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University and an MSc in Finance and a PhD in Economics from Lancaster University. I possess computing skills in Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic (VBA), SPSS, STATA, Microfit, LIMDEP, EViews, MINITAB and LISREL

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS since 2008

1.Nwachukwu,J (2008),“The Prospect for Foreign Debt Sustainability in Post-Completion Point Countries: Implications of the HIPC-MDRI Framework”, Development Policy Review, 26 (2), pp.171-188

2. Nwachukwu, J, (2008), “Foreign Capital Inflows and Real Exchange Rates” Journal of Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis in Social Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 3

3. Nwachukwu, J, (2008), “A Late 20th Century Guide to Africa's 21st Century Problems;" A Comparison with Latin America, South Asia and East Asia", South African Journal of Economic History, Vol.23, No 1&2, pp.122-154

4. Nwachukwu, J (2009)“Foreign Capital Inflows, Economic Policies and Real Exchange Rates: Is There an Interaction Effect?", Journal of Financial Decision Making, Vol. 5, No,1

5. Nwachukwu, J (2011)“Halving Extreme Poverty in Post-HIPC-MDRI Economies by 2015: How Much Will It Cost and Is It Achievable?” Journal of Policy Modeling, 33, pp. 213-225

6. Nwachukwu, J and D. Muhammed (2012), “ Business Risk, Industry Affiliation and Capital Structure: Evidence from Nigerian Listed Firms”, Journal of African Business, Vol.13, Issue 1,pp.5-15

Papers Accepted Subject to Treatment of Reviewers’ Comments:

1.Nwachukwu, J, “ Interest Rates, Market Orientation and the Profitability of Microfinance Institutions in Developing Countries  (sent to Oxford Development Studies)

2. Nwachukwu, J, Default in a Government-Sponsored Agricultural Loan Programme in South-Eastern Nigeria (sent to the International Journal of Social Economics)

Paper Under Review

Nwachukwu, J and  S. Omowunmi, “Testing the Weak-Form Efficiency of Markets: A Comparative Analysis of Developed and Developing Economies”, (Submitted to the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance)

Work in Progress

1. Age, Economies of Scale and the Sustainability of Microfinance Institutions

2. The Sensitivity of Emerging Stock Market Returns to Exchange Rate Risk