Linking with the business case for diversity, this study examines whether the top management team (TMT) and the board of directors (BODs) diversity has a positive impact on financial institution (FI) performance in select countries of Asia. We use data of 119 financial institutions across Asia...

This is a short essay on the enhancement of scrip-wise price bands in Pakistan Stock Exchange from 5% to 7.5%. The author discussed the advantages and disadvantages of broadening the price limits from both regulatory and practitioners' perspective

This study argues the likely misallocation of capital in Pakistan associated with the perverse incentives faced by banking institutions to provide additional loans to weak businesses and households. Businesses and households are more likely to receive additional bank financing if they are...

This case study provides an overview of the Pakistan's stock exchange (PSX) journey from not-for-profit mutual company to for-profit demutualized self-listed entity. The wave of demutualization and public listing of stock markets around the globe is being witnessed for the last two decades. This...

This research paper has two objectives. First, whether the Weekend Effect anomaly documented in the literature exists in the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Second, whether the existence of the Weekend Effect can be attributed to the role of short-sellers. Using daily data for the period from...

This study examines degree of job satisfaction of the faculty and staff members working in the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) of Karachi, both public and private sectors, specifically with the workplace design and its impact on the perceived employee productivity. The independent variables...

The literature on association between corporate governance and firm performance is based on the paradigm that there is a positive relationship between the two. Since better corporate control mechanism reduces the risk of information asymmetry and align the interests of owners and managers....