The contribution of project teamwork is based on the project members toward project success has remained unattended in prior literature. This paper highlights the importance of project teamwork for the project success and argues that leader alone cannot successfully complete a project. This study is based upon Higher Education Commission (HEC)'s projects in Pakistan and data has been collected from [...]
Advertising in the Ramadan is at peak in Pakistan and other Muslim countries. It now resembles other festival theme based advertising. In view of the lack of the studies on the issue, this study has adopted the constructs commonly used in measuring attitude towards advertising. The adapted questionnaire was administered to a population of 320, and the valid sample size [...]
This study examines the impact of structured and efficient market factors such as fundamental analysis, transaction processing system, information processing system and risk management on Pakistan stock exchange's investor satisfaction. We used descriptive statistics, confi rmatory factor analysis, and structural equation modeling technique to test the proposed model. Our findings reveal that all the components of the structured and efficient [...]
This study explores the relationship between the Stock and the Sovereign Credit Default Swaps (SCDS) markets by using a dataset of 36 countries. Specifically, we apply Panel-Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) model, to gauge the impact of one market's shocks to the other. Our results decipher that changes in stock market returns explain the significant portion of the SCDS market spreads' changes. [...]
This study investigates the performance persistence of 78 mutual funds of Pakistan for the period 2009-2015. The sample period is divided into two sub-periods, based on movement of KSE 100 index closing value. A skilled manager is a manager who can outclass the market consistently during both sub-periods. This study first estimates outer performance, selectivity, market timing and volatility timing [...]