Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • Size and Value Premium in Karachi Stock Exchange 
    Nawazish Mirza; Saima Shahid (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-12)
    This study evaluates the ability of the Fama and French Three Factor model to explain a cross section of stock returns in the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Following Fama and French factor approach, we sorted six portfolios ...
  • The Determinants of Capital Structure of the Chemical Industry in Pakistan 
    Muhammad Rafiq; Asif Iqbal; Muhammad Atiq (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-06)
    This study is an attempt to determine the capital structure of listed firms in the chemical industry of Pakistan. The study finds that by studying a specific industry's capital structure, one can ascertain unique attributes, ...
  • Apple Market Integration: Implications for Sustainable Agricultural Development 
    Khalid Mushtaq; Abdul Gafoor; Maula Dad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-06)
    In a market driven economy, price signals guide and regulate production, consumption and marketing decisions over time, form and place. Identifying the causes of price differences in interregional or spatial markets has ...
  • A Case Study of Milk Processing 
    Khalid Riaz (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-06)
    The paper focuses on Idara-e-Kissan, a vertically integrated cooperative in the dairy sector, which procures fresh milk, processes it and uses the profits earned in urban milk product markets to provide development ...
  • Forecasting Wheat Production in Pakistan 
    Falak Sher; Eatzaz Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-06)
    This study analyzes the future prospects of wheat production in Pakistan. Parameters of the forecasting model are obtained by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function for wheat, while future values of various inputs ...
  • 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 ...
  • Human Capital and Economic Growth 
    Qaisar Abbas; James Foreman-Peck (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2008-06)
    This paper investigates the relationship between human capital and economic growth in Pakistan with aggregate time series data. Estimated with the Johansen (1991) approach, the fitted model indicates a critical role for ...
  • Smallholders’ Access to Rural Credit 
    Shehla Amjad; SAF Hasnu (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-12)
    This paper presents an analysis of smallholders’ access to rural credit and the cost of borrowing using survey data from Pakistan. Rural credit in Pakistan comes from formal and various informal sources. The tenure status, ...
  • Estimating and Forecasting Volatility of Financial Time Series in Pakistan with GARCH-type Models 
    G.R. Pasha; Tahira Qasim; Muhammad Aslam (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-12)
    In this paper we compare the performance of different GARCH models such as GARCH, EGARCH, GJR and APARCH models, to characterize and forecast financial time series volatility in Pakistan. The comparison is carried out by ...
  • The Incidence of Government Expenditures on Education and Health 
    Ahmed Nawaz Hakro; Muhammed Akram (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-12)
    This paper has analyzed the incidence of government expenditures on health and education by using the benefit incidence approach. Recent household level data from the Pakistan Standards of Living Measures (PSLM) has been ...
  • Returns to Education and Gender Differentials in Wages in Pakistan 
    Masood Sarwar Awan; Zakir Hussain (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-12)
    Education is one of the most important factors in human development. The data from two household surveys were used to estimate the returns to education and gender disparities in wages in Pakistan. The model, an extension ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Value of Rainfall Forecasts in the Rainfed Rice Areas of the Philippines 
    Abedullah; Sushil Pandey (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-12)
    The value of rainfall forecasts for rainfed rice production in the Philippines is estimated under the assumption that farmers adjust the quantities of fertilizer and labor if rainfall forecasts are available. Using a panel ...
  • Sustainability of Feed-based Aquaculture in Bangladesh 
    Md. Rais Uddin Mian (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    Six carp and carp based culture technologies were selected to examine the sustainability of supplementary feed-based aquaculture through availability of domestic feeds compared to the total requirement in Bangladesh. ...
  • Analysis of conomic Efficiency and Competitiveness of the Rice Production Systems of Pakistan’s Punjab 
    Waqar Akhtar; Muhammad Sharif; Nadeem Akmal (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    The Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) methodology was used to determine the level of economic efficiency and competitiveness in the production of rice crops in Pakistan’s Punjab. The methodology was also used to assess the ...
  • Testing for Market Efficiency in Emerging Markets 
    Khalid Mustafa; Mohammed Nishat (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    This paper investigates the efficiency of the Karachi stock exchange (KSE) with corrections for thin trading and non-linearity as suggested by Miller, Muthuswamy and Whaley (1994). Daily, weekly, and monthly data on ...
  • An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Poverty Reduction 
    Muhammad Shahbaz Akmal; Qazi Masood Ahmad; Mohsin Hussain Ahmad; Muhammad Sabihuddin Butt (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    In this paper, we have addressed a key issue in the current debate on economic development: the effect of trade liberalization on poverty. We investigated the relationship between trade liberalization and poverty levels ...
  • Economic Rationale, Trade Impact and Extent of Antidumping – A Case Study of Pakistan 
    Ahmed Nawaz Hakro; Syed Hasanat Shah (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    This paper has analyzed the economic and political justification, trade impact and extent of antidumping measures initiated by Pakistan. Screening models for anti-predatory behaviour, Herfindahl-Hireshmann Index (HHI) ...
  • Effects of the Exchange Rate on Output and Price Level 
    Munir A. S. Choudhary; Muhammad Aslam Chaudhry (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2007-06)
    The question of whether devaluation of the currency affects output positively or negatively has received considerable attention both from academic and empirical researchers. A number of empirical studies have supported ...

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