32 articles in this issue
Mohammad Alsharif
Using daily data from 2000 to 2019, this study examines the sensitivity of Saudi market returns and volatility to changes in oil prices. This study employs the threshold general autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic in mean model (TGARCH-M) and three... see more
Ishaq Saidu,Abbas Abdullahi Marafa
This paper examines whether financial services (McKinnon conduit) or provision of credit is more effective in reducing poverty in Nigeria using data for the period 1980-2018. It employs Autoregressive and Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) Approach to estimate ... see more
Marios Psychalis,Panagiotis Gournas,Nagia Grigorakou,Petros Dimitrakopoulos,George Stivachtis
This paper aims at examining whether reforms in EU economic and fiscal governance between the period starting from 2010 and ending on 2018 have increased the Gross Domestic Product growth rate in Greece and Portugal. Reforms occurred, such as “Six Pack”, ... see more
Muhammad Shahid,Rukhsana Kalim
Fiscal decentralization is one of the major policy variables to attain economic efficiency. The present study examines the impact of decentralized taxes on the economic growth of Pakistan from 1976 to 2018. For examining the stationarity of variables, Kwi... see more
Ahmad Bash
We study the effect of the first registered case of COVID-19 on stock market returns using event study analysis. Mean-adjusted returns and market model methods are used to estimate cumulative abnormal returns for 30 countries. The results show that stock ... see more
Sampath Kumar Venkatachary,Jagdish Prasad,Ravi Samikannu,Leo John Baptist,Annamalai Alagappan,Rohini Ravi
The declaration of COVID 19 as pandemic has impacted the society at large. In what started with 17 cases in Wuhan spread its tentacles and has now over 4 million cases across the globe. In this rapidly changing environment, it is extremely difficult to qu... see more
Monir Ahmmed,Md. Nezum Uddin,Md. Rafiqul Islam Rafiq,Mohammed Jashim Uddin
Mohammad Salam Ibrahim AlShiab,Husam-Aldin N. Al-Malkawi,Abdelmounaim Lahrech
This study provides evidence on the relationship between governance quality and economic growth. We use the six Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) published by the World Bank and a sample of 29 countries (23 developed countries and 6 emerging economies... see more
Omer Allagabo Omer Mustafa
Through a regression model, the study highlighted the role of the banking finance and monetary policy in enhancing human development index (HDI) in Sudan during the period (1999-2018). The descriptive analytical approach was used to achieve the objectives... see more
Ilyes Abidi,Mariem Nsaibi,Boutheina Regaieg
The aim of this paper is to study the stability of insurance companies. The majority of works on this topic has focused on the determinants of financial stability. Therefore, they interested in the Z-score, focused on the ROA, as well as the panel method.... see more
Nain Tara,Noman Arshed,Osama Aziz,Mahwish Yamin
Women participation in the economy can help accumulate capital formation and ideation which helps them in becoming a tool for socio-economic uplift for poor people working in the informal sector of the economy. The current research has examined the impact... see more
Shailesh Rana,William H. Bommer,G. Michael Phillips
Mariem Nsaibi,Ilyes Abidi,Mohamed Tahar Rajhi
The aim of this paper is to study the effect of governance mechanisms on the operational risk management of banks. A total of 1176 operational loss events recorded in 14 banks during the period 2006-2013 are analyzed to study the relation between the oper... see more
Maha Al-Jebouri,Ahmad F. Oran,Ghazi Al-Assaf
Researchers have recently shown widespread interest in the urban concentrations and the resulting economic impacts on global cities. Opinions differ among researchers as some believe in the existence of such effect while the others do not. The study inves... see more
Aamir Khan,Himayatullah Khan
Human capital is a widely used concept in labor as well as in economics of education. The study examined return to schooling using data of 653 sample of higher education institutions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa-Pakistan. The study also focused on estimating ret... see more
Nicolas Moumni,Salma Dasser
The purpose of this study is to identify the Moroccan dirham misalignment phases over the period 1998T1-2017T4, related to an estimated equilibrium exchange rate, using an ad hoc Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BBER) econometric model. The overvalua... see more
Sattar Khan,Yasir Kamal,Azhar Khan,Arif Hussain,Muhammad Rafiq,Maryam Bibi,Syed Fahad Ali Shah,Zahir Shah,Muhammad Khan
The research paper attempts to investigate the connection between Ownership Structure and Audit Committee Effectiveness on discretionary accruals in Pakistan. This study analyzed 5 years of data over the period of 2013 to 2017 of 169 listed firms of the P... see more
Muhammad Zeeshan,Jiabin Han,Alam Rehman,Kashif Saleem,Raza Ullah Shah,Amir Ishaque,Naveed Farooq,Arif Hussain
Mutual Funds enable small investors to enjoy the benefits of the capital market instruments with small amount using the expertise of professional managers. This study examines the risk adjusted performance, timing and selection abilities of conventional a... see more
Shih-Yung Wei,Jao-Hong Cheng,Li-Wei Lin,Su-Mei Gan
This study focused on the volatility asymmetry of scale indexes in China’s stock market. A total of 12 indexes in four categories were studied during the study period, which lasted from January 1, 2012 to September 30, 2018. The study results showed that ... see more
Fatima Iqbal,Muhammad Bilal Ahmad,Rai Imtiaz Hussain,Sohail Aslam,Hafiz Fawad Ali
Time is a scarce resource. Females in Pakistan are considered to be time poor since they are burdened with paid as well as non-paid work. Recent labor force statistics reveal female workforce participation is not increasing as it should be and ‘being time... see more
Zeeshan Ahmed,Qasim Saleem,Abdul Qadir Bhatti,Bilal Ahmed
The study aims to examine the relation between capital structure and information asymmetry. For this purpose, pooled OLS and fixed effect model regression techniques are used for empirical analysis of the study. The annual data has been taken from analysi... see more
Qasim Saleem,Sidra Sidra,Abdur Rauf,Hafiz Muhammad Abubakar Siddique
The association among terrorism and economic growth is crucial from macroeconomics perspective. This analysis is carried out to extract the influence of terrorism on economic growth in Pakistan, incorporating trade, foreign aid and capital for the period ... see more
Zahid Iqbal,Rai Imtiaz Hussain,Muhammad Ali,Hamna Sohail,Hafiz Fawad Ali
This study aims are to identify the factors that create hurdle in poverty reduction with reference to loan provided by the Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to the destitute people of District Bahawalnagar. In this study questions regarding Utilization of ... see more
Gulzar Ali,Ansa Javed Khan,Sara Rafiq
The Initial Public Offering (IPO) underpricing in the stock market is considered an important factor to attract the investor towards the stock. In this study in addition to IPO the economic analysis of underpricing is investigated to examine economic effe... see more
Abdulelah Alrashidi,Omar Alarfaj
The main purpose of conducting this research is to investigate the impact of intellectual capital efficiency (ICE) and its components – human capital efficiency (HCE) and structural capital efficiency (SCE) - on bank credit and insolvency risks in the Sau... see more
Mariam Abbas Soharwardi,Mumtaz Ahmad,Muhammad Nouman Shafique
This paper inspected the exchange rate volatility in Pakistan within the time of 1981m07 to 2013m04 at that point discover its impacts on trade deficit. ARCH and GARCH models are developing for catching the unpredictability impact of exchange rate v... see more
Naveed Hussain Shah,Waqar Khalid,Saifullah Khan,Muhammad Arif,Muhammad Asad Khan
The purpose of this empirical study was to investigate whether financial risk-tolerance differs among business graduates in Pakistan based on their demographic factors (i.e., gender, age, education, experience, income, saving, location, and occupation). T... see more
Minhaj ud-Din,Muhammad Azam Khan,Muhammad Tariq
Freddy R. Camacho,Yanina S. Bajaña
The present investigation has the purpose of evaluating whether there is a Granger causality relationship in the 1996-2016 historical trajectory between the study variables, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and economic growth of Ecuador, with its commerci... see more
Reuf Shkodra,Felföldi János,Krisztián Kovács,Donika Maloku
Kosovo has the key resources needed for a developed agriculture. However, Kosovo’s agriculture consists of very small farms which are featured with the fragmentation of their land, old buildings and equipment, though functional. Ministry of Agriculture (M... see more
Nabila Khurshid,Asma Fiaz,Jamila Khurshid
This research explores the issue of gender discrimination and offers its solutions with reference to Pakistani context. A time series data from the period of 1990 to 2016 was used in this study. Dependent variable is GDP growth rate whereas independent va... see more
Sundus Shaheen,Rabia Nazir,Noreen Mehar,Fareeha Adil
The purpose of this research study is to determine the influence of the different organizational life cycle stages in modeling the quality of corporate governance. The study employs data of 46 companies listed with the KSE 100 index and uses a governance ... see more