Academic Articles in Lahore Journals of Economics: Recent submissions

  • The Impact of Corporate Governance and Ownership Structure on Earnings Management Practices: Evidence from Listed Companies in Pakistan 
    Kamran; Attaullah Shah (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-12)
    This study analyzes the impact of corporate governance and ownership structure on earnings management for a sample of 372 firms listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange over the period 2003–10. We estimate discretionary accruals ...
  • The Comparative Efficiency of Public and Private Power Plants in Pakistan’s Electricity Industry 
    Amir Jahan Khan (© Lahore School of Economics, 2014-12)
    This study estimates a cost function for fossil fuel-based electricity generating plants operating in Pakistan during 2006–11. It employs a six-year panel dataset for 31 plants to estimate the cost function parameters. In ...
  • Improving Regional Trade to Support Pakistan’s Economic Growth 
    Manzoor Ahmad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    Regional trade has been an important factor in the economic success of many countries. Within most trading blocs, intra-regional trade comprises 40 percent or more of each member country’s individual trade. However, for ...
  • The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement 
    Mohammad Saeed (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    Recognizing that trade facilitation has contributed significantly to reducing costs and time in cross-border trade, World Trade Organization (WTO) members adopted the new Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) at the last ...
  • The Changing Landscape of RTAs and PTAs 
    Rashid S. Kaukab (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper traces the evolution of “discriminatory” international trading arrangements: (i) regional trade agreements (RTAs), which offer their members better access to each other’s markets; and (ii) preferential trade ...
  • Pakistan’s Dependency on Imports and Regional Integration 
    Nasir Iqbal; Ejaz Ghani; Musleh ud Din (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    With growing global and regional economic integration, Pakistan, too, is actively seeking to enhance regional economic cooperation; it has entered into various regional and bilateral trade agreements that encompass trade ...
  • Reviewing Pakistan’s Import Demand Function 
    Zunia Saif Tirmazee; Resham Naveed (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper investigates the conventional import demand function for Pakistan using time-series data sourced from the World Development Indicators for the period 1970 to 2010. Using a vector error correction model and ...
  • Analyzing Pakistan’s Trade Opportunity with Turkey 
    Asha Gul (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    Growing economic cooperation between the Pakistani and Turkish governments—manifested in the recently proposed preferential trade agreement (PTA)—has served to strengthen the historically good relations between both ...
  • Should Pakistan Liberalize Trade With India Against the Backdrop of the FTA with China? 
    Naheed Memon; Faiza Rehman; Fazal Rabbi (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    Pakistan and India have not yet normalized trade relations and gained the full benefits of bilateral trade despite significant developments to this end since 2011. Pakistan has yet to reciprocate the most-favored-nation ...
  • Patterns of Export Diversification 
    Hamna Ahmed; Naved Hamid (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper examines historical trends in the diversification of exports in Pakistan, using the Hirschman index to quantify the degree of export diversification. We analyze the structure of exports through the lens of ...
  • The Textiles and Garments Sector 
    Naved Hamid; Ijaz Nabi; Rafia Zafar (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    The textiles and garments (T&G) sector accounts for almost 50% of Pakistan’s exports and is the largest component of manufacturing. T&G sector, because of recent favorable developments for the industry in Pakistan and the ...
  • Foreign Direct Investment and Technological Capabilities 
    Khalil Hamdani (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper makes the case for a vigorous policy thrust to support investment-led growth. Pakistan’s economy has not maintained a sufficient level of capital formation to sustain growth over the long term. Two thirds of ...
  • Compliance with Global Quality Requirements in Pakistan’s Export Sector 
    Salman Ehsan; Ayesha Khanum (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper describes the level of compliance with quality standards in relation to Pakistan’s top export product categories. With greater competition, innovations in technology, and stricter measures of quality being ...
  • Exporters in Pakistan and Firms Who Do Not Export 
    Theresa Chaudhry; Muhammad Haseeb (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    A variety of stylized facts about exporters have emerged in the new literature on international trade based on firm-level data. These include low levels of export participation among firms; small shares of export sales in ...
  • The Need for a Coordinated Industrial Strategy to Boost Pakistani Exports 
    Azam Chaudhry; Gul Andaman (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper focuses on a group of Asian countries that have successfully increased exports and found a common industrial strategy. Several key factors emerge from this study. First, countries that have managed to increase ...
  • Barriers to the Growth of Small Firms in Pakistan 
    Nazish Afraz; Syed Turab Hussain; Usman Khan (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This article identifies constraints and barriers to growth for small firms in Pakistan, a survey of the existing literature and through in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of firms in two important SME sectors, that is ...
  • The Political Economy of Industrial Policy 
    Matthew McCartney (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    The textiles industry in Pakistan has failed to fulfill its “historical mission,” whether judged in terms of promoting rapid and sustained economic growth, reducing poverty, or providing employment to young women and so ...
  • Pakistan’s Growth Spurts and Reversals 
    Rashid Amjad (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper takes a historical perspective to search for the major causes of Pakistan’s stop-go growth cycles and come to the conclusion that, to varying degrees, the foreign exchange constraint provides a major explanation ...
  • Toward a Competitive Pakistan 
    Irfan ul Haque (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper’s basic premise is that an improvement in Pakistan’s export performance is crucial to raising economic growth. After examining the reasons generally given for Pakistan’s poor export performance, we conclude that ...
  • What Does the Exchange Rate Do? 
    Sikander Rahim (© The Lahore School of Economics, 2014-09)
    This paper aims to assess the harmful impacts of exchange rate depreciations on Pakistan’s economy, including impacts on international capital movements, wages, the domestic price level, and development. Devaluation of a ...

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