Academic Articles in Lahore School of Economics Journals: Recent submissions

  • The State of Manufacturing in Pakistan 
    Rajah Rasiah; Nazia Nazeer (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    The history of successful industrializers, such as South Korea and Taiwan, shows a systematic shift in the production structure from low- to high- value added activities in manufacturing and its resulting impact on ...
  • The State of Manufacturing in Pakistan 
    Rajah Rasiah; Nazia Nazeer (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    The history of successful industrializers, such as South Korea and Taiwan, shows a systematic shift in the production structure from low- to high- value added activities in manufacturing and its resulting impact on ...
  • The State of Manufacturing in Pakistan 
    Rajah Rasiah; Nazia Nazeer (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    The history of successful industrializers, such as South Korea and Taiwan, shows a systematic shift in the production structure from low- to high- value added activities in manufacturing and its resulting impact on ...
  • Organization, Management, and Wage Practices in Pakistan’s Electrical Fan and Readymade Garment Sectors 
    Theresa Thompson Chaudhry; Mahvish Faran (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    The electrical fan sector in Pakistan has existed since at least the country’s independence and produced for the domestic market for most of its history, although the sector has had strong export growth in the last 15 ...
  • The Economic Impact of New Firms in Punjab 
    Azam Chaudhry; Maryiam Haroon (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    Despite the consensus that new firms have a significant economic and socioeconomic impact, there is very little empirical evidence to support this claim in the Pakistani context. In this paper, we start by looking at how ...
  • Pakistan: A Case of Premature Deindustrialization? 
    Naved Hamid; Maha Khan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    While “deindustrialization” is now considered normal for developed countries, recent trends show that many developing countries have seen their share of manufacturing employment peak at far earlier levels of income than ...
  • Theory at Odds with Best Practice 
    Irfan ul Haque (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    The problems that afflict Pakistan’s manufacturing sector are widely known. It is also recognized that the current state of affairs must change, but there is little agreement as to what that might entail. The lack of ...
  • The Missing Economic Magic: The Failure of Trade Liberalization and Exchange Rate Devaluation in Pakistan, 1980–2012 
    Matthew McCartney (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    Pakistan and India were part of that wave of economic liberalization among developing countries from the late 1980s. This paper is about one aspect of that failure to ‘produce the economic magic’, in Pakistan. Pakistan ...
  • The Return of Industrial Policy and Revival of Pakistan’s Economy: Possibilities of Learning, Industrial and Technology Policies 
    Akbar Noman* (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    After being among the earliest countries to embark on the East Asian path, Pakistan fell away but was still among the ten fastest growing economies of the world during 1960–90. However, the seeds for the subsequent economic ...
  • The Role of DFIs in Industrial Growth and Transformation: Why the East Asian Countries Succeeded and Pakistan Did Not 
    Shakil Faruqi (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    In this paper we explore how development finance institutions (DFIs) helped to promote industrial growth with active role of public sector in emerging market economies – Korea, China, India, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey. ...
  • Agenda Change in Western Development Organizations: From Hard Production to Soft, Timeless, Placeless Policy 
    Robert H. Wade (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    Professor Robert Wade, Professor of Political Economy and Development at the London School of Economics, delivered the keynote address for the 11th Annual Conference on the Management of the Pakistan Economy. This is a ...
  • Factors Influencing the Acceptance of Online Shopping in Pakistan 
    Samra Chaudary; Muhammad Abdul Rehman; Sehrish Nisar (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-04)
    The rapid growth of the Internet and its extended reach has helped developing countries adopt e-commerce, thus enabling consumers to make transactions worldwide. This study identifies the factors related to online shopping ...
  • 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 ...
  • Consumer Behavior Toward Nonlocal Brands 
    Sana Azar; Amina Talat; Feryal Khan; Anam Rana (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-04)
    This study explores consumer behavior toward nonlocal brands in Pakistan. Specifically, it examines the extent to which (i) product quality, (ii) country of origin, (iii) religiosity (in the context of Pakistan as a ...
  • Measuring Internet Banking Service Quality in India: An Empirical Study 
    Syed Shahzeb Saleem; Mohammad Adil (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-04)
    The measurement of Internet banking services is a key management activity that provides information necessary for making effective decisions, monitoring performance, and allocating resources effectively. In this context, ...
  • Earnings Management Through Deferred Taxes Recognized Under IAS 12: Evidence From Pakistan 
    Abdul Rafay; Mobeen Ajmal (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-04)
    This study examines earnings management through deferred taxes calculated under the IAS 12 and its impact on firm valuation. The literature finds that book–tax nonconformity leads to better earning quality and a greater ...
  • The Impact of Grade Incentives and Gender on Student Performance: An Experiment 
    Mehreen Amjad Furqan; Sohnia Salman; Sohail Zafar (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    This experiment was conducted to determine the impact of grade incentives and gender on student performance at the university level. We perform a two-way analysis of variance on a sample of three groups of students taking ...
  • Workplace Bullying and Employee Performance Among Bank Personnel in Pakistan 
    Hafsa Hussain; Qais Aslam (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    This study investigates the prevalence of workplace bullying for a sample of bank employees in Lahore. It also examines whether workplace bullying (measured as work-related bullying and person-related bullying) affects ...
  • Demutualization in Developing and Developed Country Stock Exchanges 
    Muhammad Hammad; Adil Awan; Amir Rafiq (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    This study considers seven different stock exchanges in order to measure the impact of demutualization announcements on stock market return volatility. This is measured based on the daily index prices of all seven indices: ...
  • The Impact of Consumer Ethnocentrism on Purchase Intentions: Local Versus Foreign Brands 
    Mehrukh Salman; Uswa Naeem (© Lahore School of Economics, 2015)
    This study evaluates the impact of consumer constructs, including ethnocentrism, attitudes toward brands, and celebrity endorsement, on purchase intentions for beverages in Pakistan. A quantitative survey was administered ...

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