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Browsing Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals by Subject "Pakistan"

Browsing Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals by Subject "Pakistan"

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  • Education and Maternal Health in Pakistan: The Pathways of Influence 
    Uzma Afzal; Shandana Dar (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015-12)
    Although numerous studies have explored the relationship between education and women’s health-seeking behavior, the role of education – and the pathway through which it affects health-seeking behavior – remains unclear. ...
  • Education in Pakistan’s Punjab: Outcomes and Interventions 
    Masooma Habib (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-09)
    One of the most critical challenges Pakistan faces today is the need to improve and expand its education system. With important political and demographic changes taking place, greater devolution and strengthened democracy, ...
  • The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Firm Entry and Exit in Punjab, Pakistan 
    Marjan Nasir (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study focuses on the impact of trade liberalization on firm entry and exit in Punjab’s export manufacturing sector over the decade 2001–10. As far as the province’s export industries are concerned, real exchange rate ...
  • The Efficiency of Foreign Exchange Markets in Pakistan An Empirical Analysis 
    Rizwana Bashir; Rabia Shakir; Badar Ashfaq; Atif Hassan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-06)
    This study investigates the empirical relationship between spot and forward exchange rate efficiency with reference to Pakistan and the efficiency of its foreign exchange market. We use monthly data from the State Bank of ...
  • An Empirical Investigation of the Causal Relationship among Monetary Variables and Equity Market Returns 
    Arshad Hasan; M. Tariq Javed (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study explores the long-term dynamic relationship between equity prices and monetary variables for the period June 1998 to June 2008. Monetary variables include money supply, treasury bill rates, foreign exchange ...
  • The Endemic Crisis of Federalism in Pakistan 
    Raza Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper looks at the issue of federalism in Pakistan. It begins with an analysis of the conceptual paradigms of federalism and goes on to examine the history of federalism in Pakistan. The paper goes on to discuss the ...
  • Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Digital Economy 
    Naved Hamid; Faizan Khalid (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-09)
    It is believed that Pakistan’s digital economy will follow a similar growth trajectory to India, but with a lag of about five to six years. This implies that the digital economy in Pakistan carries immense potential and ...
  • Estimating Firms’ Vulnerability to Short-Term Financing Shocks The Case of Foreign Exchange Companies in Pakistan 
    Ijaz Hussain (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-06)
    Using firm-level balance sheet data for 20 of the 24 exchange companies in Pakistan for the period 2006–11, we explore the sources of firms’ vulnerability to short-term financing shocks. Based on the probability estimates ...
  • Estimating Residential Electricity Demand Responses in Pakistan’s Punjab 
    Theresa Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    In this paper, we aim to understand residential electricity demand responses to changes in income, in order to assist policymakers in managing demand for electricity and evaluating tariff increases associated with ...
  • An Evaluation of Mutual Fund Performance in an Emerging Economy: 
    Mahreen Mahmud; Nawazish Mirza (2011-09)
    This article examines the performance of Pakistan’s mutual fund industry during 2006–10, a period characterized both by bullish and bearish markets. An analysis of fund types reveals that Islamic funds have shown ...
  • Exchange Rate Management and Economic Growth: A Brewing Crisis in Pakistan 
    Naved Hamid; Azka Sarosh Mir (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017-09)
    In this article it is argued that Pakistan has had a consistently overvalued exchange rate and the policy with regards to management of the exchange rate has undergone a significant change in recent years. We show that ...
  • Explaining Pakistan’s Premature Deindustrialization 
    Nazia Nazeer; Rajah Rasiah (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-09)
    Recognizing that Pakistan faces premature deindustrialization, this paper seeks to explain the phenomenon. The country experienced wild swings in industrialization during the 1950s and 1960s. The period 2001–10 was ...
  • Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Job Burnout in a Developing Country 
    Shamila N. Khan; Dr. Sohail Zafar (© Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research, 2013)
    Burnout is an extensively research topic in the western society however in the developing country where HR policies are not so refined, employees and HR managers still face the problem of stress and burn out within ...
  • Export Barriers in Pakistan: Results of a Firm-Level Survey 
    Rashid Amjad; Ejaz Ghani; Musleh ud Din; Tariq Mahmood (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-09)
    This study attempts to evaluate exporters’ perceptions of the problems they face in exploiting their full competitive potential in the international market. Using firm-level survey data, we find that a shortage of skilled ...
  • The Export Supply Response of Mangoes A Cointegration and Causality Analysis 
    Abdul Ghafoor; Khalid Mushtaq; Abedullah (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-06)
    This paper analyzes the impact of major factors on the export of mangoes from Pakistan. We use a cointegration approach and error correction mechanism applied to data for the period 1970–2005. Mango exports are regressed ...
  • Exporters in Pakistan and Firms Who Do Not Export 
    Theresa Chaudhry; Muhammad Haseeb (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    A variety of stylized facts about exporters have emerged in the new literature on international trade based on firm-level data. These include low levels of export participation among firms; small shares of export sales in ...
  • External Debt Management in Pakistan: A Market-Based Assessment 
    Jamshed Y. Uppal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017-09)
    Economists typically use multiple indicators to assess the burden of external debt, such as the ratios of the stock of debt to exports and to gross national product, and the ratios of debt service to exports and to ...
  • Financing Constraints 
    Hamna Ahmed; Naved Hamid (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This study has a twofold objective: (i) to investigate the determinants of firm growth, specifically the extent to which finance constrains enterprise growth; and (ii) to explore the determinants of external financial ...
  • The Fiscal Deficit and Economic Growth in Pakistan: New Evidence 
    Nasir Iqbal; Musleh ud Din; Ejaz Ghani (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017-09)
    This study revisits the relationship between the fiscal deficit and economic growth in Pakistan to determine whether there exists a threshold fiscal deficit that might serve as a benchmark for policymakers aiming to ...
  • Global Uncertainty and Monetary Policy Effectiveness in Pakistan 
    Inayat U. Mangla; Kalim Hyder (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017-09)
    This article investigates monetary policy effectiveness in Pakistan in the presence of external uncertainties stemming from the economic growth of developed economies and international oil price movements. We estimate a ...

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