This study aims to analyze and investigates the differences in performance of Islamic and conventional mutual funds in three periods, namely the period during the financial crisis period, dated 2008 to 2009, after crises period 2010 to 2017, and the whole period, dated from 2007 to 2017. More...

The purpose of this study is to find out how jingles used in advertisement plays a role in retention of the product. A questionnaire was developed to acknowledge people about retention and recall of jingles. This survey is carried out in Karachi and about 100 responses were received from the...

The article discusses the components distressing the credit risk faced by banking institutions and systematically recognizes key factors affecting credit risk formation in Islamic banking operations in Pakistan. Moreover, this study compares these factors in Islamic and conventional banking....

This paper analyses the role of institutions in enhancing the economic efficiencies across countries in a two stage Double Bootstrap DEA framework based on nonparametric frontier analysis as proposed by Simar and Wilson (2007). In the first stage, cross country workers' efficiency is estimated...

This study reviewed the literature on sustainable economic growth and institutions in the context of developed and less developed countries specifically Pakistan. It also surveyed the studies conducted to empirically asses the validity of neo classical convergence. This review have clearly...

There is a dearth of theoretical literature defining institutions and identifying the channels through which institutions influence economic welfare. Moreover, empirical studies done on the same topic also showed a positive and significant impact of institutions on macroeconomic performance....

This paper explores the trends in globalization especially financial sectors liberalization as promoted by international donor agencies and its impact on developing world with special emphasis on Pakistan. The paper highlights the shortcomings in policy implications of promoting financial...

Islamic banking has grown immensely during last decade. As more and more banks are showing up, the same time more and more people are getting critical on the nature of Islamic banking. Within the foundations of Islamic economics, lot of confusion still persists as diverse views come up from...

Developed countries pursue different policies for their growth trajectory. For some, there was no government intervention, and purely financed by private enterprise. For others it involve active government planning and investment. Developing countries had ‘advantage' of backwardness. They were...

This paper analyzes the long-run dynamics between quality of institutions measured by recently developed Index of institutionalized social technologies, and Economic performance in the sample of 84 countries covering the period 2002-2006. Panel cointegration tests and FM OLS (Fully Modified OLS)...