: This study analyzes the effect of Foreign Capital Inflow (FCI) on the economic growth of a developing economy, like Pakistan. Empirical analysis has been performed by using a recent cointegration technique, Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) method. The result shows that foreign direct...

: As risk diversification is the main concern for most investors, they tend to look into the possibility of broadening their investment activities across the countries or creating a region-based investment policy. This requires the understanding of regional and global linkages of stock markets....

: This study attempts to find out the determinants of household healthcare expenditure. The analysis uses a multi-equation recursive estimation procedure to study the determinants of healthcare expenditure. First, it uses a binary logit model to estimate the probability of being ill, which is...

: An effective institutional framework is essential to sustain growth in output, efficiency and capacity of the utility service sectors. The regulatory agency is intended to provide the high quality institution , which permits and fosters sustained growth in capacity and efficiency in utility...

: Most work on mineral dependent economies use simple and straightforward calculations to estimate the level of dependency on the mineral sector. Typical assessments by researchers on mineral dependency look at the contribution of the mineral sector to total exports, its share in GDP, or the...

: This paper is an attempt to model the volatility of the equity data of the two Indian stock markets. The study found volatility clustering in the daily returns of indices. Different GARCH models were estimated for various indices of NSE and BSE, the two premier Indian stock exchanges. GARCH(1,...

: Doubts have always remained in the claim of foreign aid contributing towards the economic growth of the recipients. This paper, therefore, aims to study the effects of aid on the Tanzanian economic growth, the largest aid recipient in average, through Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL)...

: The paper attempts to study the nature and structure of the urban labor market in Coimbatore. It analyzes the determinants of earnings of the unorganized labor market in the engineering industry, studies the occupational mobility and its determinants, and ascertains the factors associated with...

: In addressing the issue of short-run heterogeneity as well as long-run homogeneity of the estimated coefficients in a panel framework, the Pooled Mean Group (PMG) estimator (Pesaran et al., 1999) has gained popularity in applied research in economics and business recently. This estimation...

: The main idea of this present effort is to analyze the long-run relationship between Pakistan s exports and imports by employing advanced techniques like Johansen-Juselius cointegration technique, and to study the short-run dynamics through Granger causality in the VECM framework. The...