This study attempts to conduct an investigation of the characteristics of the South Asian stock markets including the effects of the opening of these markets. These markets were liberalized in early 1990s as a part of the economic reforms started in South Asian region about two decades ago. The...

Sectoral behaviour of money demand is investigated. It is found that all the series used in the analysis are non-stationary and could not be used without proper transformation. From the cointegration analysis it is concluded that there is long run relationship between the real money demand and...

This paper attempts to investigate the linkage between the excess money supply growth and inflation in Pakistan and to test the validity of the monetarist stance that inflation is a monetary phenomenon. The results from the correlation analysis indicate that there is a positive association...

The P-star inflation model is based on the long-term quantity theory of money and puts together the long term determinants of the price level and the short run changes in current inflation. The P-star model based indicator has replaced the previous monetary policy procedures in a number of...

This study estimated the demand for bank lending by the Private Business Sector in Pakistan. For the purpose of analysis we applied three step methodology that is univariarate analysis, multivariate cointegration analysis and error correction mechanism. It is found that the individual series are...

Keeping in view the importance of economic growth in a country's development, this study intended to examine the relationship between the government size and other determinants on economic growth using a time series data over the period 1973-2012. To specify the growth equation, we have followed...

This study is investigated determinants of child mortality in the Pakistan. The Pakistan is among one of the five countries who have the highest child mortality rates in the world. Literature on the subject has found extensive variation in causes of child death. We used micro-data of Pakistan...

The study investigates relevant significance of various economic determinants for inflows of worker's remittances to Pakistan. Following precedence from the policy index developed by Burnside and Dollar (2000), we develop a policy index for Pakistan and use it as a proxy for estimating the...