This study attempts to investigate the effects of calendar anomalies (Ramadan effect), a seasonal pattern in the Pakistani equity market. It is believed that the holy month of Ramadan is predicted to effect the behaviour of the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) since the environment in the country...

Purpose – This paper aims to explore the relationship between exports, financial development and economic growth in case of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – The autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing approach to cointegration and error correction model are applied to test the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of base lending rate (BLR), consumer prices, gross domestic product, money supply (M 3 ), Karachi stock exchange composite index, KIBOR, and profit rate of Islamic banks on deposits of both conventional and Islamic banks in Pakistan....

This study analyzes the time-frequency relationship between oil price and exchange rate for Pakistan by using measures of continuous wavelet such as wavelet power, cross-wavelet power, and cross-wavelet coherency. The results of cross-wavelet analysis indicate that covariance between oil price...