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  • An Investigation of the Effectiveness of Financial Development in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Tahir (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    This study attempts to discern the relationship between economic and financial development in Pakistan for the period 1973 - 2006. Vector error-correction modeling is used to identify the causality between economic and ...
  • Is Pakistan Ready to Embrace Fintech Innovation? 
    Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi; Bushra Naqvi; Fatima Tanveer (© Lahore School of Economics, Volume 23;No.2, 2018)
    payments, widespread internet and smartphone penetration, consumer preferences for social media and booming online commerce. Also, the State Bank of Pakistan provides sound regulations, which act as a platform for fintech ...
  • Is the Value Addition in Services and Manufacturing Complementary? Empirical Evidence from SAARC 
    Mirajul Haq; Syed Kafait Hussain Naqvi; Muhammad Luqman (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016)
    Most empirical studies on sectoral change provide evidence in favor of the complementarities between manufacturing and services, claiming that both sectors generally grow in parallel. This study investigates the complementarities ...
  • Is There a Causal Relationship Between Financial Markets in Asia and the US? 
    Amalendu Bhunia; Devrim Yaman (© Lahore School of Economics, 2017)
    This study examines whether there is a causal relationship between selected stock markets in Asia and the US. Based on stock values from a sample of nine Asian stock markets, we find a positive correlation with US stock ...
  • Is There an Arms Race Between Pakistan and India? An Application of GMM 
    Muhammad Ramzan Sheikh; Muhammad Aslam (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015-12)
    This study employs the Richardson model to investigate the presence of an arms race between Pakistan and India during the period 1972–2010. Using the generalized method of moments approach, we find that the grievance term ...
  • Just Development: Beyond Adjustment with a Human Face 
    Shahrukh Rafi Khan; Tariq Banuri; Moazam Mahmood (© Lahore School of Economics, 1998-06)
  • KALABAGH DAM AND THE WATER DEBATE IN PAKISTAN 
    MUNIR GHAZANFAR (© Lahore School of Economics, 2008-09)
    Kalabagh Dam (KBD) project holds a unique place in Pakistan’s policy making history. It has generated significant heated debate and controversy for a very long time. Three out of the country’s four provinces have refused ...
  • THE KASHMIR-HAZARA EARTHQUAKE, 2005: WHY, HOW AND WHAT NEXT 
    MUNIR GHAZANFAR (© Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    The 7.6 magnitude shallow focus earthquake of October 8, 2005, with an epicenter few km NNE of Muzaffarabad, Kashmir, changed the lives and perceptions of the affected millions as well as of those not so affected. This ...
  • The Knowledge Divide: Education Inequality in Pakistan 
    Haroon Jamal; Amir Jahan Khan (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2005-06)
    As economic activity becomes increasingly knowledge based, disparities in educational opportunity play a more important role in determining the distribution of income and poverty. A greater equity in the distribution of ...
  • Knowledge Management Practices in Pakistan’s Telecom Services Sector 
    Danial Hassan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-04)
    Employee turnover has become a serious problem in knowledge-intensive industries such as telecommunications, where the resulting knowledge loss affects process safety and quality. This study examines knowledge management ...
  • Language Planning in Higher Education Issues of Access and Equity 
    Sabiha Mansoor (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2003-12)
    Pakistan as a multilingual country faces numerous problems in language planning in higher education. As educational standards in higher education decline, there are concerns about student difficulties in English and ...
  • LANGUAGE POLICY, LANGUAGES IN EDUCATION, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION IN PAKISTAN 
    TAYYABA TAMIM (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-05)
    The paper is based on some key findings of a wider 3-year research study funded by Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP). This in-depth qualitative study used multiple case study method to capture ...
  • Lessons of Survival in Managing Economic and Banking Crises 
    Abdul Raoof Butt; Mehmood-ul-Hassan; Abdul Raoof (© Lahore School of Economics, 1999-12)
    Pakistan is enduring a serious economic downturn and facing the probability of the collapse of the banking and financial systems. The growth outlook is meek and risk of default is hanging over the head of the nation as a ...
  • Leverage Adjustment in Manufacturing Firms: Evidence from Pakistan 
    Muhammad Mounas Samim; Shakeel Iqbal Awan; Basheer Ahmad (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016-10)
    This study explores firms’ leverage behavior and speed of adjustment in the context of selected performance indicators in Pakistan’s manufacturing industry. Leverage behavior is predicted using ordinary least squares, based ...
  • Link between Higher Education and the Community − a Model 
    Rukhsana Zia (© Lahore School of Economics, 1999-06)
    Higher Education (HE) in Pakistan presents a case of the "inverted pyramid". The need of the country is to eradicate illiteracy and yet on the eve of the new millenium it stands at a humble 45 per cent. Poverty in ...
  • Long-Run and Short-Run Dynamics of the Exchange Rate in Pakistan: Evidence From Unrestricted Purchasing Power Parity Theory 
    Muhammad Arshad Khan; Abdul Qayyum (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-06)
    The main focus of this paper is to measure the speed of adjustment of the exchange rate by means of the persistent profile approach developed by Pesaran and Shin (1996) to examine the symmetry and proportionality assumptions ...
  • Macroeconomic Impacts of Monetary Variables on Pakistan’s Foreign Sector 
    M. Aslam Chaudhary; Ghulam Shabbir (© Lahore Schoool of Economics, 2004-06)
    This study examines the impact of monetary variables on the balance of payments of Pakistan. Besides, exogoneity of monetary variables is also tested. The empirical findings of the study show that balance of payments ...
  • Macroeconomic Variables as Common Pervasive Risk Factors and Empirical Content of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory in Pakistan 
    Ali Ataullah (© Lahore School of Economics, 2001-06)
    The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) of Ross [1976] is one of the most important building blocks of modern asset pricing theory, and the prime alternative to the celebrated Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) of Sharpe [1964], ...
  • The Magnitude of Trade Misinvoicing and Resulting Revenue Loss in Pakistan 
    Tehseen Ahmed Qureshi; Zafar Mahmood (© Lahore School of Economics, 2016)
    This study estimates the magnitude of trade misinvoicing in Pakistan with 21 of its developed trading partners in 52 major traded commodities during 1972–2013. We find that the total volume of trade misinvoicing for this ...
  • Major Determinants of Female Child Labour in Urban Multan (Punjab-Pakistan) 
    Karamat Ali; Abdul Hamid (© Lahore School of Economics, 1999-06)
    In recent years, the sensitive issue of child labour has received world-wide attention and has become the focus of serious discussion in developing as well as developed countries. Any exact information on child labour ...

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