Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals: Recent submissions

  • The Determinants of Food Prices in Pakistan 
    Henna Ahsan; Zainab Iftikhar; M. Ali Kemal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    Controlling prices is one of the biggest tasks that macroeconomic policymakers face. The objective of this study is to analyze the demand- and supply-side factors that affect food prices in Pakistan. We analyze their ...
  • The Impact of Gypsum Application on Groundnut Yield in Rainfed Pothwar An Economic Perspective 
    Hassnain Shah; Muhammad Azeem Khan; Tariq Azeem; Abdul Majid; Abid Mehmood (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    This study presents an economic analysis of experimental on-farm data on the yield effect of gypsum on groundnut production in Pakistan’s Pothwar region. The data indicates that groundnut pod yield increases significantly ...
  • Human Capital Convergence Evidence from the Punjab 
    Uzma Afzal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    While the literature on economic growth provides mixed evidence on convergence across different countries and regions, a large number of studies point toward the widening income gap between rich and poor. In the development ...
  • Does Access to Modern Marketing Channels Improve Dairy Enterprises’ Efficiency? A Case Study of Punjab, Pakistan 
    Sana Sadaf; Khalid Riaz (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    The main objective of this study is to investigate how access to modern marketing channels impacts the efficiency of dairy enterprises. Using data on dairy farms in central Punjab (Sargodha), we carry out a nonparametric ...
  • Human Capital Convergence: Evidence from the Punjab 
    Uzma Afzal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    While the literature on economic growth provides mixed evidence on convergence across different countries and regions, a large number of studies point toward the widening income gap between rich and poor. In the development ...
  • Breaking Out of Stagflation into Sustained Growth 
    Rashid Amjad; Musleh ud Din; Abdul Qayyum (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This paper proposes that the underlying cause of the macroeconomic problems facing Pakistan today are a series of supply shocks which have constrained output growth. It is argued that while the current debate has ...
  • Policy Measures for the Economic Challenges Ahead 
    Shahid Amjad Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    Pakistan faces economic challenges in the summer of 2011 with regard to its balance of payments and its public finances, resulting primarily from the suspension of an ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) program, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 Consequences of Easy Credit Policy, High Gearing, and Firms’ Profitability in Pakistan’s Textile 
    Ijaz Hussain (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    This study uses panel data on 75 textile firms for the period 2000–09 to examine the consequences of an easy credit policy followed by high gearing, increased financing costs, and other determinants of corporate profitability. ...
  • 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 ...
  • A Decomposition Analysis of Capital Structure: Evidence from Pakistan’s Manufacturing Sector 
    Attiya Yasmin Javid; Qaisar Imad (© Lahore School of Economics, 2012-06)
    This study investigates the determinants of the various components of debt—short- and long-term debt and their categories—in the case of nonfinancial listed firms in Pakistan for the period 2008–10. We make a significant ...
  • The Impact of Bank Governance on Bank Performance in Pakistan 
    Abid A. Burki; Shabbir Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This study attempts to investigate the impact of changes in bank governance on bank performance in Pakistan. Governance changes entail the privatization and restructuring of state-owned banks, and the merger and acquisition ...
  • Interest Margins and Banks’ Asset-Liability Composition 
    Idrees Khawaja (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This article examines the determinants of banks’ interest margins. The results suggest that short-term government bonds (floating debt) and the large share of interest-insensitive deposits held by banks are the key ...
  • Market Discipline in Commercial Banking 
    Ayesha Afzal; Nawazish Mirza (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This study presents empirical evidence of market discipline, using a panel dataset of listed banks on the Karachi Stock Exchange. We construct multiple riskbased measures from the stock prices between 2004 and 2009 to ...
  • The Economics of Inflation, Issues in the Design of Monetary Policy Rule, and Monetary Policy Reaction Function in Pakistan 
    Ather Maqsood Ahmed; Wasim Shahid Malik (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    The objective of this study is to estimate a monetary policy reaction function for Pakistan. To do this, we use data for the period 1992Q4–2010Q2. Our results show that the State Bank of Pakistan reacts to changes in ...
  • The Impact of Monetary Policy on Lending and Deposit Rates in Pakistan 
    Hasan Muhammad Mohsin (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This study estimates the impact of monetary policy on lending and deposit rates in Pakistan, using bank data for the period November 2001 to March 2011. We find evidence of a long-run relationship between the lending and ...
  • Government Budget Deficits and the Development of the Bond Market in Pakistan 
    Jamshed Y. Uppal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This article examines how better discipline can be brought to fiscal policy, first, through enhanced institutional checks and balances, and second, through better market discipline. We examine the political institutions ...
  • A Qualitative Analysis of Pakistan’s External and Internal Debt 
    Eatzaz Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    This paper discusses how poor debt management combined with the policies of donor agencies (particularly the IMF) have brought on the present domestic and foreign debt crises. The paper presents a qualitative account of ...
  • The Capital Account and Pakistani Rupee Convertibility 
    Irfan ul Haque (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    Pakistan embarked on the liberalization of its capital account more than two decades ago. Today, it is an economy with a capital account that is, by and large, free of restrictions, and a convertible currency. However, ...

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