Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the degree to which intangible assets affect financial performance and policy of the technological sector.Design/methodology/approach - SEM analysis was used to ascertain the relationship among intangible assets, firm performance, firm policy,...

The main aim of this study was to investigate the impact of culture, values, institutions, and happiness on the world's philanthropy. Culture is measured by Hofstede index (i.e. individualism-collectivism, masculinity-femininity, long and short-run orientation, uncertainty avoidance, power...

This paper investigates the impact of monetary policy announcements on the performance of the stock market in twenty countries (10 Developed and 10 developing). Exchange rate changes and changes in bond yield were taken as control. Daily basis Panel data was used with daily frequency for five...

In the recent past, the knowledge of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among practitioners, scholars, and researchers has grown tremendously. Scholars have been trying to find out whether the tradeoff among Corporate Social Performance and Corporate Financial Performance is unavoidable or...

This study investigates the relationship among risk management, profit efficiency using capital adequacy ratios as a risk management proxy of banks in Pakistan. In the first part, the efficiency of Banking sectors was evaluated and compared using the Stochastic Frontier Approach. In the second...

In this study, we evaluate the impact of Loan Loss provisions (LLP) on profitability ratios and income smoothing in the conventional banking sector of Pakistan. While there was no prior research that have been observed that the impact of loan loss provisions in the conventional banking sector of...

This paper aims to provide empirical evidence on the fund flows in conventional and Islamic equity and fixed-income funds by considering the relationship of it with management expense ratio, fund return, fund size, fund age, inflation, interest rate, and GDP in comparison for conventional and...

The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors that affect the financial performance of life insurance sector in Pakistan. Possible internal and external factor that include Liquidity, net premium, premium growth, underwriting risk, debt to equity, insurance leverage, tangibility,...

This empirical study was conducted to identify the different factors that influence Pakistani student's career choices. Five leading professions i.e. business and management sciences, medical, pharmacy, engineering and agriculture were selected to identify the factors. A survey was conducted...