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  • The Missing Economic Magic: The Failure of Trade Liberalization and Exchange Rate Devaluation in Pakistan, 1980–2012 
    Matthew McCartney (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    Pakistan and India were part of that wave of economic liberalization among developing countries from the late 1980s. This paper is about one aspect of that failure to ‘produce the economic magic’, in Pakistan. Pakistan ...
  • Mobile Banking: A Potential Catalyst for Financial Inclusion and Growth in Pakistan 
    Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi; Bushra Naqvi; Fatima Tanveer (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017-09)
    Almost half the world’s adult population lacks access to a formal bank account and other financial services. Pakistan is no exception and it is also among those countries at the lower end of the spectrum of financial ...
  • Modeling and Forecasting the Volatility of Oil Futures Using the ARCH Family Models 
    Tareena Musaddiq (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    This study attempts to model and forecast the volatility of light, sweet, crude oil futures trading at the NYMEX during 1998–2009, using various models from the ARCH family. The results reveal that the GJR-GARCH (1,2) model ...
  • The Moderating Effect of Helping Behavior on the Relationship Between Ingratiation and Supervisor Satisfaction 
    Mariam Musaddiq; Muhammad Ali Asadullah; Imran Hameed (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016)
    This study investigates the combined effect of ingratiation and helping behavior on supervisor satisfaction in the workplace. Based on a sample of 168 supervisors and 453 employees working in Pakistan’s hospitality sector, ...
  • MODERNIZATION, SOCIAL CHANGE AND RELIGION: A CASE STUDY OF THE ISLAMIC UMMAH 
    RIAZ HASSAN (© Lahore School of Economics, 2011-10)
    In this paper I explore the impact of modernization and social change on the Islamic ummah (community of believers) and how they are shaping the emerging struggle between ‘hybridity’ and ‘authenticity’ among Muslims and ...
  • Modified Variance Ratio Test for Autocorrelation in the Presence of Heteroskedasticity 
    Sohail Chand; Nuzhat Aftab (© Lahore School of Economics, 2018)
    Given that autocorrelation tests do not perform well in the presence of heteroskedasticity and in variance-break cases, we present three modified weighted variance ratio tests of autocorrelation. The numerical results show ...
  • Motives of Foreign Firms in Pakistan 
    Mohammad H. Akhtar; Peter J. Buckley (© Lahore School of Economics, 2000-12)
    To date no study has been made to explore the FDI motives of foreign firms in Pakistan. An attempt has been made to rectify this position through a survey of both wholly- and majority-owned multinational enterprises ...
  • THE MUSHARRAF DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY: WILL IT DELIVER? 
    RASHID AMJAD (© Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    The paper examines the major components of the development strategy pursued by the Musharraf regime since it took over in 1999 (called “ The Musharraf Development Strategy”). It examines the extent to which it departs ...
  • Mutual Fund Industry in Pakistan 
    Amjad Waheed (© Lahore School of Economics, 1997-12)
  • The Need for a Coordinated Industrial Strategy to Boost Pakistani Exports 
    Azam Chaudhry; Gul Andaman (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper focuses on a group of Asian countries that have successfully increased exports and found a common industrial strategy. Several key factors emerge from this study. First, countries that have managed to increase ...
  • NGOs and Gender Development, the Case of AKRSP in District Chitral, NWFP, Pakistan 
    Humayun Khan (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2006-06)
    The empowerment of women and improvement of their socio-economic status are essential ingredients of economic, political and social development. To achieve these objectives, the Government and NGOs have launched a number ...
  • Noise Trading and Single Stock Futures: Modifying Sentana & Wadhwani’s Model 
    Imran Riaz Malik; Attaullah Shah (© Lahore School of Economics, Volume 09;No.1, 2020)
    Derivatives, and their influence on the dynamics of underlying stock markets, is an interesting topic of debate, which predates their introduction. The unresolved influence of derivatives on their underlying stock markets ...
  • Norms of Cooperation, Trust, Altruism, and Fairness: 
    Theresa Thompson Chaudhry; Misha Saleem (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    A rich area of economic research focuses on the role of controlled experiments to understand interactions between agents and agents’ own deepseeded preferences as they pertain to pro-social behavior. Four of the most common ...
  • A Note on Corporate Capital Structure Theories 
    Mawal Sara Saeed (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-12)
    Financial theory revolves around rational participants who want to maximize their utility or wealth for a given level of risk. This maximization, in the first place, calls for the optimality of available resources, making ...
  • A Note on the Information Content of Corporate Dividend Policy 
    Ayesha Khanum (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-06)
    This note discusses the significance of the information content of dividends, which is reflected through the market price reactions to a firm’s dividend decisions. Informational asymmetries are the main reason for signaling ...
  • A Note on the Pricing of Liquidity in Stock Returns 
    Nawazish Mirza (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    Keynes (1930) proposed that an asset is more liquid than another “if it is more certainly realisable at short notice without loss” (vol. II, p. 67). This definition suggests that the liquidity of an asset is twofold. First, ...
  • Obstacles Facing Saudi Exporters of Non-Oil Products 
    Mohammed Duliem Al-Qahtany (© Lahore School of Economics, 2000-06)
    This study explores the obstacles facing Saudi exporters of non-oil products. The sampling frame comprised 411 firms, which have been involved in exporting for at least two years as identified by the Saudi Export Development ...
  • Oil Prices and Government Bond Risk Premiums 
    Hervé Alexandre; Antonin de Benoist (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    This article analyses the impact of oil prices on bond risk premiums issued by emerging economies. No empirical study has yet focused on the effects of oil prices on government bond risk premiums. We develop a model of ...
  • ON IMPROVING SOCIAL SCIENCE EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN 
    ASAD ZAMAN (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    How do we arrest the decline of the social sciences in Pakistan? Is it a matter of money or one of sending more students to the West who might then return to teaching at the local universities? In this article I argue ...
  • On the (Ir)Relevance of Monetary Aggregate Targeting in Pakistan An Eclectic View 
    Adnan Haider; Asad Jan; Kalim Hyder (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-12)
    This study attempts to identify a stable money demand function for Pakistan’s economy, where the monetary aggregate is considered the nominal anchor. With evolving financial innovations and regulations, the stability of ...

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