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  • 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 ...
  • Estimation and Forecasting of Industrial Production Index 
    Muhammad Ejaz; Javed Iqbal (© Lahore School of Economics, Volume 26;No.1, 2021)
    It is essential that policymakers consider cyclical changes in output. Monthly industrial production is one of the most important and commonly used macroeconomic indicators for this purpose. However, monthly estimates ...
  • Estimation of Saving Behaviour in Pakistan Using Micro Data 
    Mehboob Ahmad; Tasneem Asghar (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2004-12)
    The role of savings in investment and therefore in the development of a country cannot be exaggerated. In poor countries like ours most of the savings is done by households. In this paper the saving behaviour of Pakistan ...
  • Estimation of Supply and Demand Elasticities for Major Crops Produced in Pakistan 
    Saima Rani; David Vanzetti; Elizabeth Petersen; Muhammad Qasim (© Lahore School of Economics, Volume 25;No.1, 2020)
    This article studies the supply and demand of major Pakistani crops. We estimate supply elasticities using a Nerlovian partial adjustment process and demand elasticities using the Deaton and Muellbauer Almost Ideal Demand ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Evolving Ownership and the Capital Structure Regime in Japan 
    Wali Ullah; Shahzadah Nayyar Jehan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2013-06)
    This study is an attempt to investigate the implications of changes in ownership structure and control transfer in the Japanese corporate market—a trend attributed mainly to the government’s increasing liberalization ...
  • Exchange Market Pressure and Monetary Policy 
    M. Idrees Khawaja (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-12)
    The study employs the Girton and Roper (1977) measure of exchange market pressure (defined as the sum of exchange rate depreciation and foreign reserves outflow), to examine the interaction between exchange market pressure ...
  • Exchange Rate Exposure and Firm Value: An Assessment of Domestic Versus Multinational Firms 
    Hajra Ihsan; Abdul Rashid; Anam Naz (© Lahore School of Economics, 2018)
    This paper examines the impact of exchange rate changes on the stock returns of 232 nonfinancial firms listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange, for the period January 2000 to June 2014. To mitigate the problem of heteroskedasticity, ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Exchange Rates and Monetary Dynamics in Pakistan: An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Approach 
    Muhammad Arshad Khan; Muhammad Zabir Sajjid (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2005-12)
    In this paper we investigate both the long and short-run relationship between real money balances, real income, inflation rate, foreign interest rate and real effective exchange rate with reference to Pakistan over the ...
  • Explaining Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: A logit model on the Turkish data (1984-2001) 
    Feridun, Mete (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2005-06)
    This article aims at explaining the financial crises Turkey experienced in the last decade through a random effects logit model which incorporates 26 macroeconomic, political, and financial sector variables. Evidence emerges ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Export-Led Growth Hypothesis in Pakistan 
    Saima Siddiqui; Sameena Zehra; Sadia Majeed; Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    Trade is presumed to act as a catalyst to economic growth. This paper reinvestigates the export-led growth hypothesis in Pakistan by using annual time series data on exports, imports, terms of trade, and the labor force ...
  • 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 ...
  • Exports, Productivity and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Time Series Analysis 
    Aurangzeb (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2006-06)
    This paper investigates the relationship between exports and economic growth in Pakistan by utilizing the analytical framework put forward by Feder (1983). The hypothesis that marginal factor productivities are not equal ...
  • 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 ...
  • External Shocks in a Small Open Economy 
    Vaqar Ahmed; Cathal O’Donoghue (2010-06)
    This paper studies the impact of changes in the external balance of Pakistan. We explain why the economic growth achieved during the past decade was highly dependent on improvements in the external balance. Between 2001 ...

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