Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals: Recent submissions

  • Asymmetric Behavior of Inflation Uncertainty and Friedman-Ball Hypothesi 
    Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi; Bushra Naqvi (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-12)
    This paper is a first attempt to measure and analyze inflation uncertainty in Pakistan. It makes several contributions to the literature. In the first stage, using quarterly data from 1976:01 to 2008:02, we model inflation ...
  • Pakistan: Indus Basin Water Strategy – Past, Present and Future 
    Shahid Amjad Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper looks at the Indus Basin Water Strategy for Pakistan. It begins with a historical overview of the Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS), the Indus Basin Replacement Works (1960-1980) and the Indus Basin Salinity ...
  • Can Pakistan Get Out of the Low Tax-to-GDP Trap 
    Aisha Ghaus Pasha (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper explores how Pakistan can get out of the low-tax-to-GDP trap and come close to achieving its revenue targets. Examining the trend factors influencing the trend in total and individual tax-to-GDP ratios over a ...
  • Why is it so Difficult to Implement a GST in Pakistan 
    Ehtisham Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper discusses the efforts by the Government of Pakistan to implement a General Sales Tax (GST). First, a history of Pakistani tax reform efforts is presented along with the reforms recommended by the National ...
  • 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 ...
  • A Panel Data Analysis of Electricity Demand in Pakistan 
    Azam Amjad Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper looks at the economy-wide demand and the firm level demand for electricity in Pakistan. The economy wide estimation of electricity demand uses panel data from 63 countries from 1998-2008, and finds that the ...
  • Dynamics of Circular Debt in Pakistan and Its Resolution 
    Syed Sajid Ali; Sadia Badar (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper examines the circular debt problem in the Pakistani energy sector. After presenting the profile of the energy sector in Pakistan, the paper explains why circular debt has emerged in the sector. Two principal ...
  • Pakistan’s Energy Sector Issues 
    Tariq Husain (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper analyzes Pakistan’s energy sector issues and highlights (i) the importance of the link between energy and the environment, and (ii) the central importance of energy efficiency for high return demand-side solutions ...
  • The Endemic Crisis of Federalism in Pakistan 
    Raza Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This paper looks at the issue of federalism in Pakistan. It begins with an analysis of the conceptual paradigms of federalism and goes on to examine the history of federalism in Pakistan. The paper goes on to discuss the ...
  • Provincial Rights and Responsibilities 
    Shahid Javed Burki (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-09)
    This article suggests that Pakistan requires a different development paradigm. The analysis begins by giving a quick overview of some of the larger economies of the region and assesses the divisions that have developed ...
  • Asset Allocation for Government Pension Funds in Pakistan 
    Fahd Rehman (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-06)
    Reforms have begun in Pakistan to sustain the funded pension scheme for government-operated pension schemes such as the Employees Old Age Benefit Institution (EOBI). Presently, the EOBI operates its own fund and invests ...
  • Reaction of Stock Prices to Dividend Announcements and Market Efficiency in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Akbar; Humayun Habib Baig (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-06)
    This study tests the semi-strong form of market efficiency by investigating the reaction of stock prices to dividend announcements. It analyzes cash, stock, and simultaneous cash and stock dividend announcements of 79 ...
  • Development of Supply and Demand Functions of Pakistan’s Wheat Crop 
    Muhammad Zulfiqar; Anwar F. Chishti (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-06)
    A simultaneous-equations model was used to capture the supply and demand functions for Pakistan’s wheat sector at the national level. This model reflects the fact that Pakistan’s domestic wheat supply is priceresponsive and ...
  • 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 ...
  • Unilateral Liberalization versus Regional Integration 
    Jahangir Khan Achakzai (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-06)
    Using an international dataset on bilateral trade for 137 countries in 2005, we estimate a gravity model to address the question of whether intra-Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) trade is too low and whether the ...
  • The Determinants of Pakistan’s Trade Balance 
    Waliullah; Mehmood Khan Kakar; Rehmatullah Kakar; Wakeel Khan (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2010-06)
    This article is an attempt to examine the short and long-run relationship between the trade balance, income, money supply, and real exchange rate in the case of Pakistan’s economy. Income and money variables are included ...
  • Measuring Volatility of Inflation in Pakistan 
    Nadia Saleem (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    The available evidence in Pakistan suggests that inflation is a monetary phenomena. This paper examines the relationship between the determinants of inflation and its volatility by using monthly data for 1990:M1-2007:M5. ...
  • Impact of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on Profitability 
    Muhammad Abdul Majid Makki; Suleman Aziz Lodhi (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between intellectual capital efficiency and the firm's profitability. The importance of intellectual capital (IC) and the related philosophy of the knowledge economy ...
  • 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 ...
  • Causality between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth 
    Qazi Muhammad Adnan Hye; Sana Riaz (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    This study seeks to determine the direction of causality between energy consumption (EC) and economic growth (EG), using annual data from 1971 to 2007. In our empirical analysis, we implement a bounds-testing approach to ...

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