We empirically examine the role of board gender diversity in influencing stock price crash risk at the firm-level in twelve (12) Asia-Pacific Markets. Using a dataset comprising data from 1021 listed firms over the period 2006-2016, we employ a random effect model in a regression setting....

Using a sample of 12,550 firm-year observations for the US over the period 2009-2021, we empirically examine the impact of environmental innovation on firm-level investment efficiency. Using fixed-effect regressions, our results indicate that eco-innovation has a significant and positive impact...

This paper examines the effect of corporate social responsibility on firm performance by accounting for the role of Intellectual capital efficiency as a mechanism underlying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)- firm performance association. In this study, we consider 2132 US companies and...

The purpose of the paper is to show some methods of extreme value theory through analysis of Pakistani nancial data. It also in- troduced the fundamental of extreme value theory as well as practical aspects for estimating and assessing nancial models for tail related risk measures.

In this paper we use high-frequency multivariate data and attempt to model the joint distribution (dependence structure) of daily KSE-100 returns, S&P 500 and SSE 180 index. We compute portfolio Value at Risk (VaR) using Archimedean copula for three multivariate models, which were used to model...

The purpose of the paper is to show some methods of extreme value theory through analysis of Pakistani financial data. It also introduced the fundamental of extreme value theory as well as practical aspects for estimating and assessing financial models for tail related risk measures.

Developing countries? lack of healthcare facilities particularly in rural areas has been the major problem for their population. In Pakistan, 65% of population lives in rural areas. The patients from these areas are unable to interact with the health specialists for their particular diseases....