The paper empirically examines the effects of trade liberalisation on income inequality in China and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation countries. Panel data analysis is conducted for the period of 1973 to 2012. The results show that liberal trade policies have increased income...

This paper empirically examines the significance of credit ratings for optimal capital structure decisions. Non-financial Asian listed companies, evaluated by Standard and Poor's, are selected from 2000 to 2016. Panel data analysis with pooled ordinary least square (OLS), fixed effect (FE), and...

The study examines the link between organizational justice (OJ) and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) using collectivism (COLL) as moderating variable in Pakistan. Survey based data is collected using questionnaire from 350 respondents of six public sector universities in Pakistan. The...

This paper examines market efficiency and asymmetric cointegration among the South Asian stock markets using monthly data from January 1998 to December 2013. The structural breaks and wavelet based unit root tests indicate that the markets are efficient at least in the weak form. We use...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between credit rating scales and debt maturity choices. A liquidity hypothesis is used to formulate the testable proposition and conceptual framework. Generalized linear model (GLM) and pooled ordinary least square (OLS) are utilized by...

In recent years sharp increase in gold prices has been witnessed. Since gold has many functions, it provides macroeconomic safety and is used as a hedge against inflation. It is therefore important to know the determinants of gold price in Pakistan. The aim of this study is to analyze the...

The study investigates the impact of trade openness on pollution in China by applying wavelet-coherence analysis, phase-difference technique and Breitung and Candelon (2006) causality test. The estimated results provide some dynamic association between trade openness and pollutant variables. The...