Academic Articles in Lahore Journals of Economics: Recent submissions

  • 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) ...
  • 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 ...

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