MPhil Economics Dissertation
| Title | Student-Author | Supervisor - Co-Supervisor |
|---|---|---|
| Impact of Terrorism on FDI Inflows: A Case Study of OIC Countries (1990-2014) | Saba Jawaid | Prof. Dr. Usman Mustafa |
| State Dependent Fiscal Multipliers:a Case Study of Pakistan Economy | Sajjad Ali | Dr. Mahmood Khalid |
| Revealed Comparative Analysis of Pakistan in Services Trade with Selected Asian Countries | Asif Javed | Dr. Hafsa Hina |
| Impact of Telecommunication Infrastructure and Institutional Quality on Intra-SAARC Trade Efficiency | Hafiz Sajid Imran | Dr. Hafsa Hina |
| Dynamic Effects of Fiscal Spending: A Panel Data Analysis of Selected South-Asian Countries | Muhammad Zaman | Dr. Attiya Yasmin Javid |
| Decomposition Of Income Inequality In Pakistan: A District Level Analysis | Muhammad Arsalan Ali | Dr. Rehana Siddiqui |
| Impact of Social and Macroeconomic Uncertainty on Private Savings in Pakistan | Filzia Behnosh | Dr. Saud Ahmad Khan |
| Is There Some Wage Penalty to Qualification Mismatch? A Cross-Sectional Analysis for 2001-14 Period | Muhammad Kashif | Dr. Shujaat Farooq |
| Fiscal Impact of Demographic Transition in Pakistan | Taqi Raza | Dr. Durre Nayab |
| Impact of Government Spending on Economic Growth: An Empirical Study of Federal and Provincial Spending of Pakistan | Shahid Mahmood | Dr. Attiya Yasmin Javid |
| Violence in Society: Role of Formal and Informal Institutions | Sadia Sherbaz | Dr. Karim Khan |
| Impact of HIV/AIDS on Labor Productivity and Return to Work in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province | Haseen Shah | Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad |
| Impact of Globalization on Fiscal Instability in South Asian Developing Countries | Romina Maryum | Dr. Usman Mustafa |
| Response of Monetary Policy to Big and Small Shocks of Inflation and Output | Muhammad Abdullah | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Impact of Interest Rate and Global Financial Crisis on Budget Deficit: A Transfer Function Analysis | Nazish Mehboob | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Infrastructure and Economic Growth in Pakistan: A Panel Data Analysis | Sarnaila Sharif | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Doorstep Conditions For Transition: Evidence from Arab Spring | Nafeesa Gul | Dr. Karim Khan |
| Testing Random Walk Behavior of Real Exchange Rate Using Different Methodologies | Sadia Riaz | Dr. Atiya Yasmeen Javaid |
| Effect of Foreign Aid Uncertainty on Government Fiscal Behavior in Pakistan | Amina Wali | Dr. Atiya Yasmeen Javaid |
| Asymmetric Behavior of Inflation Uncertainty, Unemployment Uncertainty and Economic Growth: Evidence from Pakistan | AZAZ ALI ATHER BUKHARI | DR. ATTIYA YASMIN JAVED |
| Intergenerational Educational Mobility: Evidence from Pakistan Panel Household Survey | Naila Baig | Dr. Sajid Amin Javed |
| Monetary Policy Effects: Evidence from Provincial Data | Muhammad Mujahid Iqbal | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Remittances and Output Volatility: Evidence from Developing Economies | Khawar Shehzad | Dr. Karim Khan |
| Benefits of the Metro Bus Service (MBS) In Rawalpindi/Islamabad | Muhammad Waqar Ali Shafqat | Dr Idrees Khawaja |
| Impact of Institutional Quality ON Inflation Growth Nexus | Muhammad Ali | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Impact of Political Structure and Foreign Direct Investment on Growth in Pakistan | Nilofer | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Interest Rate Pass-Through A Case Study of Pakistan | Syeda Sehar Kazmi | Dr. Waseem Shahid Malik |
| Environmental Kuznets Curve and Decomposition analysis of emissions: Empirical evidence from Pakistan | Muhammad Saqib | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Ecological Footprint, Economic Growth And Ecological Efficiency | Hazrat Yousaf | Dr. Anwar Hussain |
| Free Trade Agreements: A Welfare Analysis for Pakistan | Khurram Shahzad | Dr Sajid Amin Javed, Dr Attiya Yasmin Javid |
| The Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Technical Efficiency of Tobacco Production: A Case Study of District Swabi | Mubassir Zubair | Dr. Muhammad Nasir |
| The Relative Effectiveness of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Macroeconomic Stability | Muhammad Junaid Nasrullah | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Role Of Institutions in Growth convergence a Cross-country analysis | Muhammad Safdar Bajwa | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Revenue Potentials In Pakistan: An Economic Analysis | Syed Hamza Ali | Dr. Ahsan Ul Haq Satti |
| Demand for Foreign Exchange Reserves in Pakistan: Finding the Optimal Level | Zulakha Kaleem | Dr. Attiya Yasmin Javid |
| Impact Of Human Capital On International Trade: A Cross Country Analysis | Sami Ullah | Dr. Attiya Yasmin Javid |
| Distributional Effects Of Public Expenditures Using Quintile Regressions | Zafar Iqbal | Dr. Eatzaz Ahmed |
| Modelling the Demand for Bank Loans by Private Business Sector in Pakistan | Faiza Hassan | Prof. Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Firm Size, Exchange Rate and Exports Performance: A Firm Level Study Of Pakistan’s Manufacturing Sector | Asad Abbas | Dr. Ejaz Ghani |
| An Analysis of the Impact of Government Size On Economic Growth of Pakistan: An Endogenous Growth | Shamaila Zareen | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Three Essays on the Economics of Trade Unions in Pakistan | Afaq Mehmood | Dr. Zafar M. Nasir |
| The Impact of Foreign Capital Inflows on the Competitiveness of Pakistan’s Economy | Shabana Kishwar | Dr. Zafar Mahmood |
| An Analysis Of The Impact Of China’s Monetary Policy Shocks On South Asian Economies | Neelam Zulfiqar | Dr. Hasan. M Mohsin |
| Land Distribution and Agricultural Productivity: A District level analysis of Punjab province | Sobia Saeed | Dr. Munir Ahmad |
| Estimating the Long-Run Creditworthiness of Pakistan and the Impact of Global Financial Crisis on the Creditworthiness | Rimsha Karim | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Regime Switches in Pakistan's Fiscal Policy: Markov-Switching VAR Approach | Wajid Ali | Dr. Abdul Sattar |
| Determinants Of Terrorism: Panel Data Analysis | Muhammad Azhar | Dr. Hasan M. Mohsin |
| Assessing Price-Cost Markup and its Behavior over Business Cycle: Analysis of Pakistan’s Manufacturing Industries | Salman Ahmed | Dr. Attiya Yasmeen Javed |
| Dynamics of Poverty, status of Child Labor/schooling in Pakistan: Evidence from Panel Dataset | Adnan Bashir | Dr. Shujaat Farooq |
| A Simulation Analysis of Resource Deficits, Borrowings, And Debts By using three-gap Model: A Case of Pakistan | Yousaf Dar | Prof. Eatzaz Ahmad |
| Impact of Trade Liberalization on imports, Exports and Balance of Trade: A Case Study of SAARC | S. M Nabeel Ul Haq | Dr Ejaz Ghani |
| Inflation Uncertainty and Output Uncertainty Nexus: The Case of Pakistan | Naveed Mahmood | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Estimation of Petroleum Demand Functions and Future Forecasts: An Aggregate and Disaggregate Analysis for Pakistan | Zaheer Ahmad | Dr. Eatzaz Ahmad |
| Validity And Asymmetry Of Okun’s Law: A Case Study For Three Groups Of Asian Economies | Farhat Rasul | Dr. Hasan Muhammad Mohsin |
| Returns To Education And Determinants Of Education-earning Relationship: Evidence from Pakistan | Samina Rahman | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Fundamentals of Real Exchange Rate: Examining Dutch Disease Presence in Pakistan | Nayab Fatima Hina | Dr. Zaffar Moeen Nasir |
| Impact of Climate Change on Productivity of Cotton in Pakistan: A District Level Analysis | Amar Raza | Dr. Munir Ahmad |
| Currency Depreciation and Output Nexus: Evidence From Pakistan | Muhammad Nawaz | Dr. Ejaz Ghani |
| Resource Curse or Blessing?: A panel data Analysis | Abdul Hannan | Dr. Hasan M. Mohsin |
| Remittances, Inflation and Economic Growth: A Case Study of Pakistan | Seyyda Taskeen Abbas Naqvi | Dr. Ghulam Mohammad Arif |
| Composition Of Public Expenditures And Economic Growth: A Dynamic Analysis | Shaheen Naseer | Dr. Musleh ud Din |
| Disaggregated Energy Consumption, Industrial Output and GDP ( A Co-integration Analysis) | Hanan Ishaque | Dr. Hassan M. Mohsin |
| An Analysis of Monetary Policy Reaction Functions for Pakistan Economy: In Search of an Optimal Monetary Policy Rule | Shahzad Ahmed | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| The Political Economy of Pakistan’s External Sector | Sajid Rafiq | Dr. Musleh ud Din |
| Market Structure, External Sector and Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan | Akbar Ullah | Dr. Ejaz Ghani |
| Nexus of spending on public goods and agriculture growth in Pakistan | Abid Ali | Dr. Anwar Hussain |
| Measuring Agriculture Productivity in Pakistan | Naeem Akhtar Javed | Dr. Usman Mustfa |
| The Impacts of Remittances on Child Education in Pakistan | Sami Ullah | Dr. Muhammad Jehangir Khan |
| An Analysis of the Spatial Dimensions of Poverty in Punjab | Azhar Ali | Dr. G. M. Arif |
| Rent Seeking: It’s Impact on Total Factor Productivity and Inflation | Aqila Anwar | Dr. Musleh ud Din |
| Financial Development and Agricultural Growth: A Case Study of Pakistan” | Syeda Sidra Batool | Dr. M. Idrees Khawaja |
| Oil Prices and Workers Remittances in Pakistan: An Empirical Analysis | Syed Hasan Ali Naqvi | Dr. Hasan M. Mohsin |
| Consumer Preferences for the Quality Demanded for Milk in Islamabad, Pakistan: An Application of Hedonic Price Model | Syeda Sadia Zehra | Dr. Usman Mustafa |
| Employment Pattern Diversification in Pakistan’s Industrial Sector | Afshan Muneer | Dr. Musleh-ud Din |
| Emigration and Trade Creation in Pakistan | Noureen Fatima | Dr. Zafar Mahmood |
| The Impacts of Energy Pricing Policies on Consumers’ Welfare | Muhammad Atta ul Islam Abrar | Prof. Dr. Eatzaz Ahmad |
| An Analysis of Intra-generational Mobility and its Determinants in Rural Pakistan. | Naima Rasheed | Dr. G.M. Arif |
| Investigating Opportunity and Grievance as Drivers of Violence: A Case Study of Pakistan | Laila Sohail Farooq | Dr. Idrees Khawaja |
| Performance of Islamic Bank in Pakistan; Alternative Models | Zohaib Omer Mirza | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Financial Development Institutions and Forign Direct Investment | Muhammad Iqbal | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Models of External Debt Growth Relationship for Pakistan | Muhammad Ramzan | Dr Eatzaz Ahmad |
| Working Poor in Pakistan | Muhammad Mohsin Latif Kiani | Dr. G. M. Arif |
| Consumption Pattern of Pakistani households: Evidence from Pakistan Panel Household survey 2010 | Asma Shahzadi | Dr. G.M. Arif |
| Export Price Competitiveness in the Manufacturing Sector of Pakistan | Uzma zia | Dr. Zafar Mahmood |
| Measuring Mixed Use Land in Large Cities and Its Impact on Reducing Commuting and Congestion Cost | Abid Rehman | Dr. Zahid Asghar |
| Is Corruption Detrimental or Beneficial for Trade: A Case Study of Pakistan | Adeel Khalid | Dr. Idrees Khawaja |
| Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Remittance Inflows And Economic Growth: Evidence From South Asia | Muhammad Imran | Dr. Sajid Amin Javed |
| Food Demand In Pakistan: Analysis and Projections | Naveed Hayat | Dr. Anwar Hussain |
| Impact of Remittances on Household Welfare in Pakistan | Mehtab Habib | Dr. Shujaat Farooq |
| Effects of Non-Farm Income on Food Security in Pakistan: A Counterfactual Analysis | Ghulam Mustafa | Dr. Munir Ahmad |
| Sources to Finance Fiscal Deficit and Their Impact on Inflation: A Case Study of Pakistan | Kashif Ali | Dr. Mahmood Khalid |
| The Impact of External Indebtedness on the Growth and Poverty in Pakistan | Babar Shahzad Dogar | Dr. Eatzaz Ahmed |
| Are deficits Inflationary? Role of Monetary and Financial institutions: Empirical Evidence from Asian Economics | Tahira Ishaq | Dr. Hassan M Mohsin |
| The Role of Microcredit in Improving the Well-Being of Rural Households: Evidence from Community Livelihood Fund in District Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | Murneeb ur Rahman | Dr. Anwar Hussain |
| The Impact of Political Risk and Macro Economic Policy Uncertainty on Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Selected South Asian Countries | Muhammad Azam | Dr. Muhammad Arshad Khan |
| Estimating Tolerance and its Impact on Economic Wellbeing: A Case Study of District Peshawar | Muhammad Adil Saleem | Dr Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policy: A Case Study of Pakistan | Asmat Khan | Dr. Mahmood Khalid |
| Welfare Impact of Minimum Wage in Pakistan | Allah Nawaz | Dr. Zafar Mueen Nasir |
| Technical Efficiency Analysis of Wheat Farms In Punjab, Pakistan: A Comparison of Sfa and Dea Approaches | Aamir Shahzad | Dr. Munir Ahmad |
| Nexus between Fiscal Discretion and Macroeconomic Variables in Pakistan | Muhammad Ismail | Dr. Fazal Hussain |
| Forecasting Exchange Rate of Pakistan | Sehrish Ashfaq | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Identifying the Role of Socio Economic Demographic and deterrent variables on crime rate of Punjab. | Shahzad Mahmood Jabbar | Dr. Hassan M Mohsin |
| Foreign Aid-Growth Nexus in Pakistan: Role of Macroeconomic Policies | Muhammad Javid | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Demographic Transition, Saving And Economic Growth In Pakistan | Javaria Kanwal | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Ricardian Equivalence Hypothesis: Evidence From Emerging Market Economies | Imran Arif | Dr. Attiya Yasmin Javid |
| Asymmetric Effects Of Monetary Policy In Pakistan: Lstvar Approach | Zobia Neelum | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Determinants of Tax Ratios: A Panel Study | Younas Butt | Dr. Hasan M. Mohsin |
| Impact of Rural Infrastructure on Development of Pakistan: A District Level Analysis | Naeem Asghar | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Role of Demographic Transition and Human Capital Dynamics in Determining Economic Growth | Munir Ahmad | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Households Losses in 2014 Floods and Coping Strategies A Study of Chiniot, Punjab | Ameer Hyder | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Analysing the Effect of Remittances on the Household Assets of Pakistan | Kiran Fatima | Dr. Abdul Qayyum |
| Fiscal Marksmanship In Pakistan: A Provincial Analysis | Sara Jabeen | Dr. Anwar Hussain |
| Impact of Leadership Transitions and Economic Policy Uncertainty on Economic Growth: The Case of Pakistan | Sehrish Andleeb | Dr.Musleh-ud-Din |
| Response of Macro Economic Indicators to Electricity Crisis and Circular Debt: A Case Study of Pakistan | Bushra Faizi | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Impact of Foreign Remittances on Human Capital: A Case Study of Pakistan | Nabeeda Saghir | Dr. Ghulam Mohammad Arif |
| The Nexus Of Government Spending And Economic Growth: Evidence From Pakistan And Saarc Region | Rabia Saba | Dr. Zafar Moueen Nasir |
| Impact of Economic Growth and Population on Environment | Khurram Shahzad | Dr. Rehana Siddiqui |
| Household Saving Behaviour in Pakistan | Umbreen Iqbal | Dr. Zafar Mueen Nasir |
| Government intervention and food price variability: a case of wheat market Punjab, Pakistan | Muhammad Khalil | Dr Anwar Hussain |
| Impact of Migration and Remittances on Labor Supply in Pakistan | Kamran Khan | Dr. G. M Arif |
| The Macroeconomic Consequences of Volatile Discretionary Fiscal Policy: A Panel Analysis | Muhsin Ali | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Sacrifice Ratio or Benefit Ratio: Controlling Inflation with Tight Monetary Policy | Sidra Mariyam | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Human Capital Accumulation and Economic Growth in South Asia: A Bi-directional Relationship | Nabya Tehreem | Dr. Sajid Amin |
| Impact Of Credit on Education and Healthcare Spending By the Poor: Evidence from Rural Areas of Pakistan | Abid Hussain | Dr. Muhammad Jehangir Khan |
| Culture, Economic Freedom and Economic Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis | Yasir Khan | Dr. Attiya Y. Javed |
| Impact Of External Debt, Foreign Aid and Governance on Economic Growth: An Extension of Ramsey-cass-koopman Model | Unbreen Qayyum | Dr. Musleh ud Din |
| The Exchange Rate Channel of Monetary Policy and Its Impact on Inflation and Output in Pakistan. | Mukamil shah | Muhammad Arshad Khan |
| Economic and Non-Economic Determinants of Private Investment: A Case Study of Pakistan | Umar Farooq | Dr. Muhammad Arshad Khan |
| Exchange Rate Forecasting Using Neural Network Model | Sana Ali | Dr. AttiyaYasmeen Javaid |
| Combating Corruption Through Fiscal Decentralization: A Case Study Of Pakistan | Malik Kifayatullah Awan | Dr. Zafar Mueen Nasir |
| Dividend Policy and Corporate Governance of Financial Sector | Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal | Dr. Arshad Hassan |
| Impact of Gender Inequality in Education on Economic Growth | Muhammad Ahsan Iqbal | Dr. Idrees Khawaja |
| Dynamic Relation Between Inflation And Economic Growth In Pakistan: Linear Vs. Non-linear Approach | Liaqat Ali | Dr. Nasir Iqbal |
| Determinants of Total Factor Productivity: A region wise study | Hamid Haroon ur Rashid | Dr. Attiya Yasmin Javid |
| Measurement of Illicit Trade: The Case of Pakistan | Um E Salma | Dr. Eatzaz Ahmad |
| Decentralization and Economic Growth: Is Institutions the Missing Link? | Muhammad Zeeshan Arif | Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad |
| Political Economy of Trade in Services: A Strategic Framework of Liberalizing Trade In Services for Pakistan | Ahmed Gulzar | Dr. Ejaz Ghani |
| Estimating Implicit Inflation Target For Pakistan: State Space Approach | Saima Bashir | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| Determinants of Intra-Industry Trade between Pakistan and Selected SAARC Countries | Adnan Akram | Dr. Zafar Mahmood |
| The Relative Price Convergence in Pakistan: Does the choice of numeraire city matter? | Zahra Azam | Dr Hassan M. Mohsin |
| Institutional Quality and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Framework Analysis | Faheem Sajjad Dhariwal | Dr. Idrees Khawaja |
| Nonlinear Exchange Rate Pass Through Into Inflation: The Case of Pakistan | Habiba Fatima | Dr. Wasim Shahid Malik |
| The Composite Impact of Institutional Quality and Inequality on Economic Growth | Neelum Nigar | Dr. M. Idrees Khwaja |
| The Impact of Institutional Quality on Monetary Policy in Pakistan | Abdul Wajid | Dr. M. Idrees Khwaja |
| Impact of Energy Prices on Inflation in Pakistan | Munazza Akhtar | Dr. Idrees Khawaja |