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  • 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 ...
  • On the Causal Relationship between Government Expenditure and Tax Revenue in Pakistan 
    M. Haider Hussain (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2004-12)
    This paper applies the technique of Granger Causality to determine the relationship between total government expenditures and total tax revenue using annual revised estimates. The analysis discovers a firm unidirectional effect ...
  • On the Conditioning of the Financial Market’s Reaction to Seasoned Equity Offerings 
    Onur Arugaslan; Louise Miller (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2006-12)
    Consistent with asymmetric information arguments, prior research has shown that the financial market typically responds negatively to the announcement of a seasoned equity offering (SEO). Korajczyk and Levy (2003), however, ...
  • On the Estimation of an Absolute Poverty Line: An Empirical Appraisal 
    Haroon Jamal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2002-12)
    The fad that different studies seeking to measure poverty in a given country often give differing results, although they apparently use the same method and same data source, has long disconcerted both experts in the ...
  • On the validity of the Capital Asset Pricing Model 
    Hassan Naqvi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2000-06)
    One of the most important developments of modern finance is the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) of Sharpe, Lintner and Mossin. Although the model has been the subject of several academic papers, it is still exposed ...
  • One-Step-Ahead Forecastability of GARCH (1,1) A Comparative Analysis of USD- and PKR-Based Exchange Rate Volatilities 
    Abdul Jalil Khan; Parvez Azim (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    This study aims to capture volatility patterns using GARCH (1,1) models. It evaluates these models to obtain one-step-ahead forecastabilities by employing four major forecasting evaluation criteria, and compares two ...
  • Opportunities and Challenges for Pakistan in an Era of Globalisation 
    Umer Khalid (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2003-06)
    The study analyses the degree of integration of Pakistan’s economy in global trade and financial flows. Pakistan’s integration into the global economy gained momentum in the late 1980s and early 1990s when it adopted more ...
  • The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Pakistan’s Trade with China and Other Neighbors 
    Naved Hamid; Sarah Hayat (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-09)
    While Pakistani trade with India could give a boost to Pakistan’s economy, there are other neighbors with whom trade could be equally important. We look at this aspect of regional trade and show that promoting trade with ...
  • Organization, Management, and Wage Practices in Pakistan’s Electrical Fan and Readymade Garment Sectors 
    Theresa Thompson Chaudhry; Mahvish Faran (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    The electrical fan sector in Pakistan has existed since at least the country’s independence and produced for the domestic market for most of its history, although the sector has had strong export growth in the last 15 ...
  • Organizational Culture Assessment of Small & Medium-Sized Enterprises 
    Arshad Zaheer; Kashif ur Rehman; Abrar Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2006-12)
    This paper is an ethnographic study defining and assessing the organizational culture exhibited by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). It primarily focuses on four cultural categories: clan, adhocracy, hierarchy and ...

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