Rate My Professor Mary Agboola

Dr. Mary Agboola serves as associate professor of finance in the Business & Economics faculty at Howard Payne University, having joined as new faculty for the 2025-2026 academic year. She also holds the position of coordinator of graduate studies and special projects in academic affairs, where she oversees the newly established Office of Graduate Studies. This office consolidates support for the university's four graduate programs, focusing on recruitment, retention, enrollment streamlining, and fostering a Christ-centered learning environment. Prior to these roles at Howard Payne University, Dr. Agboola was an associate professor of economics at Dar Al Uloom University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for nine years. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology in Nigeria, followed by a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus.

Dr. Agboola’s research specializations encompass behavioral economics, consumer economics, and macroeconomics, with emphasis on economic growth, development, energy consumption, environmental sustainability, and urbanization impacts. Her scholarly contributions include over 25 peer-reviewed publications, such as "The cruciality of environmental degradation, energy use and urbanization to policy framework for sustainable growth and development: evidence from Spain" (2025), "Testing the Mediating Role of Fiscal Policy in the Environmental Degradation in Portugal: Evidence from Multiple Structural Breaks Co-integration Test" (2023), "Another look at the nexus between economic growth trajectory and emission within the context of developing country: fresh insights from a nonparametric causality-in-quantiles test" (2022), "Pathway to environmental sustainability: Nexus between economic growth, energy consumption, CO2 emission, oil rent and total natural resources rent in Saudi Arabia" (2021), and "Revisiting the economic growth and agriculture nexus in Nigeria: Evidence from asymmetric cointegration and frequency domain causality approaches" (2020). These works explore policy implications for sustainable development across various economies, including Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Portugal, and Spain.