Empirical evidence to identify factors that are responsible for the sluggish development of bond and capital markets in Pakistan remains scanty. This paper is a step forward in this direction. Specifically, this paper draws on the recent developments in the area of law and finance to formulate...

This paper empirically tests the existence and direction of causality between stock market index (KSE) and exchange rates in the post-floating exchange rate regime and vibrant stock market performance of Pakistan. The data period ranges from January 1998 to December 2009. Results of...

This paper analyses herding behaviour in the Pakistan stockexchange (PSX, formerly known as Karachi stock exchange, KSE) for a sampleof 663 firms over a period of 13 years, from 2004 to 2017. For detectingherding behaviour, two dependent variables are used, i.e., cross-sectionalstandard...