Purpose: The study invites seminal investigation on potential of investment returns in professional sports leagues. In line with scope of research, the analysis of this study brings into focus the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and franchises pertinent to Pakistan Super League (PSL) for...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to ascertain the impact of coronavirus (Covid-19) on small and medium enterprises in Pakistan, which are vulnerable to crisis situations. This study also aims to provide policy recommendations to the stakeholders by reviewing the situation of small and...

The aim of this seminal paper is the empirical analysis of geopolitical risk, economic policy uncertainty, financial stress, and infectious diseases' impact on financial institutions' stability at the country level. The quantitative research approach followed by regression analysis is employed...

Financial institutions are an important source of providing impetus to investment by mobilizing savings and channelizing them to meet much needed capital requirements of other sectors. Similarly, the extant literature documents volatility of influential financial intuitions is not standalone but...

The present study brings new insights to investigate the empirical estimation of banking risk behavior through advanced mechanisms. Consistent with the need to comply with the new age of finance, this study uniquely banks its case by employing nested tested modeling through a nexus of...

The study examines the systemic risk of banking sector in Pakistan and elucidates the factors that exacerbate the systemic risk taking. First, a systemic risk measure ∆CoVaR is applied to analyze the contribution of individual institution to the whole financial system. Secondly, systemic risk...

Systemic risk is of concern for economic welfare as systemic financial crisis has the potential to inefficiently lower the supply of credit to the nonfinancial sector. Conventional systemic risk measures are parsimonious in nature and are used to assess the current systemic risk contributions of...

The study aims to investigate the effect of conventional capital ratio, risk-based capital ratio, and capital buffer ratio on commercial bank risk-taking over the period from 2002 to 2019 using a two-step GMM method. The finding reveals that there is a positive relationship between traditional...

Purpose: Based on transformative service research (TSR), the study explores the mechanisms by which a firm's information transparency influences a retail investor's perceived financial well-being (PFW). It proposes a model exploring the mediating roles of the investor's financial risk tolerance...

Purpose: This study aims to diagnose the global key contributors in the stock market manipulation studies during the past four decades. Design/methodology/approach: The database search is based on the terms used in the existing body of knowledge. Using the bibliometric tools and techniques on...