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  • Pakistan, Growth, Dependency, and Crisis 
    Matthew McCartney (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2011-09)
    Compared to the historical and even contemporary experience of India, Pakistan has long been regarded as a “dependent” economy. Gross domestic product growth in Pakistan is typically argued to be contingent on external ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • THE MIRROR AND THE LAMP COLONIAL EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN 19TH CENTURY PUNJAB 
    ATIYAB SULTAN (© Lahore School of Economics, 2011-10)
    Recently, education in colonial India has generated considerable and varied academic interest. Bayly’s seminal work on knowledge and information gathering extended the discussion on knowledge systems in India beyond the ...
  • 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 ...
  • WOMEN IN URBAN INFORMAL SECTOR: LABOUR PROTECTION POLICY CONCERNS 
    RANA EJAZ ALI KHAN; TASNIM KHAN (© Lahore School of Economics, 2011-10)
    This paper looks at the conditions of the informal sector working women of Bahawalpur city in southern Punjab in the perspective of Labour Protection Policy of the Government of Pakistan. It is thus as much a study of ...
  • POWERKNOWLEDGE AND ECONOMIC THEORIES 
    ASAD ZAMAN (© Lahore School of Economics, 2011-10)
    It is widely believed that human knowledge represents valuable information about the world we live in. Historical studies of Michel Foucault led to the striking conclusion that human knowledge cannot be separated from the ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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