The paper explores the impact of shocks in oil prices on the stock market for the oil importing and exporting nations. As Pakistan is heavily dependent on imports of oil therefore, we focus on Pakistan as an oil importing nation and have taken Iran, as an oil exporting nation because, it is considered to be among top ten nations of [...]
The study determines most favorite destinations for money laundering preferred by wrong doers from 25 developing nations selected on the basis of highest illegal financial fund outflows from 2004 to 2014, a report published by Global Financial Integrity (GFI) in 2015. Firstly, it has been discussed that how money laundering activities are shackling the economic and financial stability in a [...]
This study aims to assess what determines/improves the overall multidimensional nature of the financial development index and its sub-indices. For this purpose, we use data over the period 1998 to 2017 for 9 countries from the Asia-Pacific region. The hypothesis of no long run relationship between variables is tested via the three-panel co-integration test i.e. Kao test, the Pedroni [...]
This study aims to examine the impact of hierarchical plateau on turnover intention with moderating role of person job-fit facet. Hierarchical plateau is a point of an individual's career life where the probability of being promoted further is low. The theory of work adjustment (TWA) is applied in this research study which measures that satisfaction level of an employee and [...]
It is a common notion that front of pack label guide individual for the selection of healthy and right amount of packaged food. The inconsistent results found in past studies. In continuation with current study proposed a model which is underpinned with theory of planned behavior. The proposed model comprised of factors affecting individual attitude to read food label at [...]
This paper is an in-depth study on the country's public disorder and the efficacy of police response. In order to understand the dynamics of police response towards violent public order situations, it is important to elaborate complexities of the prevailing environment. The evaluation of this environment revolves around the existing policing practices towards handling volatile law and order situations, available [...]
The research article investigates the role of the news media and specifically electronic media since 2005, which has emerged as a strong force in Pakistan in the past decade and, under certain circumstances, shapes public policymaking in Pakistan. Media across the world is seen as a tool to shape public narratives and influence policymakers in crafting policies that adhere to [...]
The objective is to see how social media addiction affected students' academic performance and physical health in covid-19. In addition, the moderating impact of psychological well-being on the relationships between personality traits and social media addiction is also studied. Data collection is conducted through an online survey with 506 Pakistani students. Results are analyzed through the partial least squares method. [...]
The purpose of this paper is to highlight that contingent capital certificates (CC certificates) provide financial institutions with the cushion to resist financial crises, but if the structure of these CC certificates is based on the singular trigger, it can cause a transfer of wealth between investors, i.e., existing shareholders and the CC certificate holders. Many financial institutions, to [...]
The purpose of this article was to examine a model that recognizes the effect of organizational justice on contextual performance. The model also assessed the mediating role of emotional intelligence in connecting organizational justice and contextual performance. The data were gathered from 202 self-administered questionnaires, sampling respondents from administrative staff working in private sector universities. The relationships among these variables [...]
With the presence of increasingly similar products in the fashion apparel retail industry, the real challenge today is to steer marketing communication efforts in the direction of developing consumer-brand bonds that are interpersonal and simultaneously acknowledge the role of market mavens as strong external influencers in this regard. Hence, the primary area of focus this to analyze the relationship among [...]
The study examines the impact of viral, street, stealth, ambient, and ambush marketing on consumer buying behavior towards the clothing industry in Karachi, Pakistan. The study has used structural equation modeling for data analysis while the purposive sampling technique has been used and collected 247 sample size based on the estimation of Soper (2018). The results have shown that street [...]
Economic forecasting is necessary to revise and check the effectiveness of the existing policies. This serves as a pioneer study to forecast house prices (HP), foreign direct investment (FDI), and worker's remittances (WR) using the time series data ranging from 1973 to 2018 on the economy of Pakistan. The analysis is performed on a yearly, quarterly, and monthly basis to [...]
The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the knowledge management environment on knowledge management effectiveness through the mediating role of knowledge sharing processes in public and private, conventional and Islamic branch banking of Pakistan. The Survey technique was used for the collection of data from the staff of branch banking. A sample of 290 was used [...]