Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals: Recent submissions

  • The Trade Potential of Pakistan 
    Nazia Gul; Hafiz M. Yasin (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    This paper attempts to estimate Pakistan’s trade potential, using the gravity model of trade. Panel data for the period 1981-2005 across 42 countries is employed in the analysis. The coefficients obtained from the model ...
  • Prospects for Cooperative Marketing among Surgical Instrument Producers in Pakistan 
    Theresa Thompson Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-06)
    Given that clustered firms in developing countries generally sell their goods through multinational firms, we seek to determine under what conditions might clustered surgical instrument firms band together and form a ...
  • Income Tax Revenue as an Indicator of Regional Development in Pakistan 
    Ijaz Hussain; Sumbal Rana (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    The objective of this paper is to highlight the use of income tax revenue as an indicator of regional development in Pakistan. Initially, we identify a dramatic shift in income tax revenue trends at the provincial level ...
  • Competitiveness of Pakistani Fruits in the World Market 
    Waqar Akhtar; M. Sharif; Hassnain Shah (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    This paper examines the global competitiveness of Pakistan’s fruit exports (dates, mangoes, and oranges), using revealed comparative advantage (RCA). It also analyzes domestic consumption trends among selected fruits grown ...
  • An Efficiency Analysis of Punjab’s Cotton-Wheat System 
    M. Ishaq Javed; Sultan Ali Adil; Sarfaraz Hassan; Asghar Al (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    This study examines the technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies of the cotton-wheat farming system in Punjab, Pakistan. It also investigates the determinants of these efficiencies using a non-parametric data ...
  • An Analysis of Host Country Characteristics that Determine FDI in Developing Countries 
    Muhammad Tariq Majeed; Eatzaz Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    This paper analyzes a range of host country characteristics that determine foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to developing countries, using panel data on 72 countries for the period 1970-2008. Keeping in view the ...
  • Trade and Income Convergence in Selected South Asian Countries and Their Trading Partners 
    Ahmed Nawaz Hakro; Bashir Ahmad Fida (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    This paper analyzes trade among and the convergence of per capita income for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The extent of trade and its relationship with the magnitude of income convergence is studied among ...
  • The Role of Satellite Stock Exchanges 
    Jamshed Y. Uppal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-12)
    In many countries, capital markets are often served by multiple stock exchanges, typically with one national or dominant exchange and several regional or satellite exchanges. While multi¬ple exchanges create a competitive ...
  • The Impact of Corporate Governance on the Cost of Equity 
    Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah; Safdar Ali Butt (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study examines the impact of the quality of corporate governance, as measured by a specially constructed corporate governance index, on the expected cost of equity calculated using the capital asset pricing model ...
  • 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 ...
  • Cointegration and Causality 
    Abdul Ghafoor; Khalid Mustafa; Khalid Mushtaq; Abedullah (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    Mangoes are one of Pakistan’s most important fruits; the country is the world’s fourth largest producer and exporter of mangoes. Integrated markets are those where price signals are transferred from one to another, allowing ...
  • Economic Value of Irrigation Water: Evidence from a Punjab Canal 
    Ijaz Hussain; Maqbool H. Sial; Zakir Hussain; Waqar Akram (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study is based on data from a cross sectional survey of 120 farms located along the Mithaluck irrigation canal in central Punjab. The data collected were analyzed using (i) the residual imputation method, and (ii) the ...
  • The Impact of Socioeconomic and Demographic Variables on Poverty: 
    Imran Sharif Chaudhry; Shahnawaz Malik; Abo ul Hassan (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    Poverty is a complex phenomenon based on a network of interlocking economic, social, political, and demographic factors. An understanding of the extent, nature, and determinants of rural poverty is a precondition for ...
  • Trade Liberalization and the Lead Role of Human Capital and Job Attributes in Wage Determination 
    Bushra Yasmin (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2009-06)
    This study analyzes the role of human capital and job attributes, i.e., supply-side determinants, in determining wages in a period of trade liberalization. Using the Mincerian earning function and based on data from the ...
  • 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, ...
  • Fiscal Marksmanship in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Zakaria; Shujat Ali (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    Using Theil’s inequality coefficient based on the mean square prediction error, this paper evaluates the forecasting efficiency of the central government budget and revised budget estimates in Pakistan for the period 1987/88 ...
  • Measurement and Decomposition of Consumption Inequality in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Idrees; Eatzaz Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    This paper shows that inequality in consumption expenditure in Pakistan improved slightly between 1992/93 and 2004/05, and that the extent of inequality in food consumption has remained substantially lower than in ...
  • Evaluation of Rice Markets Integration in Bangladesh 
    Mohammad Ismail Hossain; Wim Verbeke (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    The liberalization of the agricultural sector in general and the rice subsector in particular has been a major component of Bangladesh’s structural adjustment program initiated in 1992. However, the government has ...
  • Adopting Inflation Targeting in Pakistan 
    Nadia Saleem (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    The objective of this paper is to assess the conditions for inflation targeting in Pakistan. The recent inflationary surge in Pakistan calls for rethinking monetary policy afresh. This paper argues the case for ...
  • Does Trade Openness Reduce Inflation 
    Tahir Mukhtar (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    One of the more celebrated propositions found in international trade is the case that trade liberalization is associated with declining prices, so that protectionism is inflationary. In line with this view, Romer (1993) ...

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