Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Pakistani banks manage their portfolios (lending vs investment) when the economic indicators are not supportive. This study investigates three aspects of the banking system in Pakistan – prevalence of disintermediation, post-crisis...

Around the globe, a number of researches are conducted to measure the X-efficiency of banking sector. The obvious reason is that economic growth, macroeconomic stability and expansion of monetary policy are directly dependent on banking sector performance and efficiency in any country (Berger &...

This study aims to fulfill three main objective i.e. finding financial constraints using the model that suits Pakistani environment best, determining the impact of asset sales on investment for financially constrained firms and finally determining the impact of investment and asset sales on...

Purpose: Inquiring the role of Islamic and conventional banks regarding the core responsibility of lending is an established phenomenon. This chapter is based on key findings regarding dynamic changes in the structural mix of credit portfolios in Islamic banks and conventional banks of...

Recently Islamic banks are experiencing rapid growth in Islamic countries as well as non-Islamic countries. The profitability of the Islamic banks is based on the different instruments as a share of total financing. Mainly there are two categories of financing instruments are available, first is...

This research assessed that how various sources of energy such as renewable, fossil fuel, electricity generation using oil, and hydroelectric sources can influence the level of output in Pakistan. For this purpose, the ARDL bounds test using annual time series data from 1980 to 2019 is used to...