While the issue of the effect of stock index futures trading on the volatility of the underlying asset has been extensively examined in finance literature, the Single Stock Futures (SSFs) being relatively newer derivative products have not received much attention in the finance literature. Given...

This paper empirically examines the hypothesis that diffusion of information is not uniform across all sectors of a market. Large industries or industries where trading volume is substantially larger attract attention of a large number of investors who in turn make these industries...

In this paper, we have compared forecasting performance of three economic and two autoregressive models of exchange rate in five Asian economies; namely Pakistan, India, Indonesia, Korea and Sri Lanka. Models include purchasing power parity (PPP), interest rate parity (IRP), adhoc model, random...

This study seeks to evaluate the efficacy of the Pakistani Code of Corporate Governance by finding out its impact on firm's performance and efficiency. This exploration is done in the context that Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan's choice of corporate governance regulations is...

The slow diffusion of information hypothesis has emerged as a more convincing explanation for lead-lag patterns in assets returns compared to traditional explanations such as non-synchronous or thin trading, liquidity factor, or size factor, etc. We provide further support to slow diffusion of...

This particular study is regarded to the static trade off theory, pecking order theory, signaling theory and agency theory, life stage theory, transaction cost economics theory, market timing theory. This paper also estimates the results by an interactive structural equation modeling, depends on...