This paper examines the comparative analysis of the average level of External Debts between Democratic and Military Regimes in Pakistan for the time period of 41 years spread over1972 to 2012. This tenure had a combination of military and democratic regimes. Independent sample t-test is used to...

The thorough economic literatures present on the role of Foreign Direct Investment in positively affecting the economic growth prove its importance for the development and prosperity of Pakistan. The study aims at identifying the determinants of FDI and studying the FDI-economic growth...

The research was conducted in order to study the volatility in gold price returns and its investigation. The data has been collected on daily basis for the tenure of a couple of years starting from 1st January 2009 to 31st September 2011. The models used to run the data are: standard deviation...

CPEC, a mega project that aims to connect Gwadar from Kashghar, is not only a game changer for China and Pakistan but it is for the whole region. This research paper will disclose the impact of the announcement of CPEC on different sectors including cement, automobile, banking, insurance and...

This study investigates the impact of three leadership styles; the transactional leadership style, the transformational leadership style and laissez faire on presenteeism among the healthcare professionals in Pakistan. Using a structured close-ended questionnaire, data were obtained from 128...

The attempt of the research is to realize the key factors and examine the effect of corporate governance and capital structure on firms' financial performance belonging to petroleum sector which are registered on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). The study focuses on data gathered from five...

Purpose: This study mainly investigates the factors, like job satisfaction, affective commitment, perceived organizational support and distributive justice as antecedents of turnover intentions. Methodology: This study utilized the quantitative approach by distributing questionnaires to 200...

The study aims to investigate which of the social and personality factors affects the buying behaviour of the consumers towards counterfeit products. The study is also set out to examine the relationship of consumers' buying behavior towards counterfeit product with purchase intention. We used...

This research is an attempt to establish a stochastic relationship between Financial leverage and Profitability of cement sector operating in Pakistan. For this purpose 18 cement manufacturers out of 21 are incorporated in the study and six years annual data from 2005 to 2010 regarding financial...

Research study is a comparative study of the returns of the two mutual funds which are close ended and open ended mutual fund, quarterly data of Net Asset Values NAV of both the funds from 2008-2012 (inclusive) was taken and the return on those NAVs was calculated through natural log (LN)...