Muhammad Tahir

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan. · Management Sciences

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to focus on South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member economies to examine the impact of trade openness on the industrial sector development. Design/methodology/approach – Panel data econometric techniques are used to the data for the period 1980-2013 for the selected six countries, name...

Purpose Intellectual capital (IC) is a paramount resource for competitiveness in the knowledge-based financial sectors of the economy. As financial technology advances, specifically in the banking industry, it is vital to understand the effect of IC on financial performance. This study aims to investigate the effect of IC on return on equity (ROE),...

Purpose The MENA region is very rich in terms of natural resources. At the same time, the MENA region has also been a victim of terrorism during the last few years. This study is an attempt to investigate whether there is any relationship between natural resources and terrorism in the MENA region. Design/methodology/approach We have focused on 15...

In recent years, demand for energy consumption has increased, especially in emerging countries such as the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) member countries. This study thus aims to investigate the explicit relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in the SAARC countries. The researchers employed panel econ...

Purpose This paper makes a novel attempt to estimate the potential impact of credit risk on foreign direct investment (FDI hereafter), thereby focusing on a completely unexplored area in the existing empirical literature. Design/methodology/approach To provide a comprehensive understanding of the relationship between credit risk and FDI inflows, t...

This study empirically examines the influence of trade openness on the rate of inflation by focusing on the Chinese economy. The study utilizes data covering the period 1987–2019 and employs the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL) for the extraction of results from the designed models. The results of the study indicate that trade openness h...

Purpose This paper investigates the factors crucial for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in establishing business relationships with banks in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach To investigate how SMEs select banking relationships using criteria, such as decision factors, decision-makers, and decision processes, a comprehensive literature rev...

Purpose Sustainability is essential to the ongoing operations of banks, though it is much less clear how Islamic corporate governance (ICG) promotes economic sustainability (ES) and thereby prevents bankruptcy. To explore the unexplored, this study aims to examine the efficacy of ICG in preventing bankruptcy and enhancing the ES of Islamic banks op...

Entrepreneurship has recently attracted great attention from researchers due to its enormous growth-enhancing effects. However, the empirical literature has not paid sufficient attention to the explicit relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth. This paper aims to explore the potential relationship between entrepreneurship and econo...

Purpose This research paper attempts to empirically examine the relationship between the performance of the banking industry and foreign direct investment (FDI), thereby helping the readers contemplate one of the least explored areas of the existing literature associated with the idiosyncratic characteristics of FDI resulting from its interaction w...

Purpose This paper empirically examines the impact of terrorism on the insurance–growth relationship in the context of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, thereby attempting to address the unexplored area in the relevant literature. Design/methodology/approach The study considered MENA as it has been one of the terribly affected zones in t...

The study investigates the economic dimensions of war. It considers empirical literature through structure review to explore the different effects of war on businesses. The scope of the study covers all geographical areas and studies dealing with any respective event in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, the study caters for quality, relevance,...

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In thirst for economic growth, economies are engaged in anti-environmental activities that drive them towards climate change and CO 2 emissions. Extensive CO 2 emissions is a serious threat around the globe, especially in low-income countries that can prove detrimental to the environment. To prevent the worst impacts of carbon emission, it becomes...

This paper attempts to evaluate the impact of massive infectious and contagious diseases and its final impact on the economic performance anywhere and anytime. We are considering to evaluate the case of Wuhan, China. We are taking in consideration the case of COVID-19 to be evaluated under a domestic, national, and international level impact. In th...

This study provides a unique perspective in environmental sustainability and research domain by linking climate change and terrorism, which is a new and unexplored factor of environmental sustainability. Through a newly developed predictive model, this study assessed the impact of terrorism on environmental sustainability in the MENA region countri...

Purpose- Today, not only the financial but also the non-financial attributes are considered vital for the financial health of the banks. To validate this argument, the current study investigates factors affecting the liquidity position of banks and examines its impact along with moderation of Shariah board on the liquidity of Islamic banks in Pakis...

This paper examines the effect of per capita income, trade openness, energy consumption, and financial development on the ASEAN region's environmental degradation. We obtained data from the World Development Indicators (WDI) during the years 2001-2020 to test our research model. For analysis, we applied panel data techniques such as pooled least sq...

This paper attempts to evaluate the impact of massive infectious and contagious diseases and its final impact on the economic performance anywhere and anytime. We are considering to evaluate the case of Wuhan, China. We are taking in consideration the case of COVID-19 to be evaluated under a domestic, national, and international level impact. In th...

Purpose This paper explores the relationship between natural resources and economic growth of Brunei Darussalam, an underresearched area in the available literature. Design/methodology/approach Annual data are sourced from reliable sources for the period 1989–2020. Appropriate cointegration techniques for time series data are employed to estimate...

Foreign investment and finance are considered key to economic growth for many economies. However, in terrorism, these economies directly lose international capital. As a result, it causes an adverse impact on economic development in the countries economic growth models mainly provide the theoretical linkages between economic growth and stimulating...

Purpose Improving the quality of life of the masses is the prime objective of all policymakers of both developed and developing countries. However, the determinants of improved quality of life are not well explored in the empirical literature. This study has, therefore, tried to identify the determinants of quality of life by focusing on military e...

While the literature indicates that Islamic Corporate Governance (ICG) practices enhance firm performance, there is scant research on how sustainability practices affect the nexus between ICG and firm performance. To address this knowledge gap, this study developed a framework for conceptualizing the moderating effect of sustainability practices on...

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This paper empirically examines the trust-based consumer decision-making model in the context of a collectivist country (i.e., Pakistan). The target population of the study was the general retail consumers recruited through online survey. A total of 396 valid responses were analyzed using structural equation modeling in Smart PLS. The study reports...

Purpose Environmental degradation is recognized as a serious problem globally, and hence, Saudi Arabia is no exception. This paper aims to focus on the economy of Saudi Arabia to identify the determinants of environmental degradation. Design/methodology/approach Time series data spanning from 1971 to 2014 is used and analyzed using the recently de...

The study examines the impact of intellectual capital on the financial performance of banks in Pakistan. Data is obtained from the annual reports of banks. The value-added intellectual coefficient (VAIC) approach is employed to analyze the efficiency of banks. ROA is used to measure the financial performance of the banks. The intellectual capital (...

This paper empirically examines the trust-based consumer decision making model in the context of collectivist country i.e. Pakistan. The target population of the study were the general retail consumers recruited through online survey. A total of 396 valid responses were analyzed using structural equation modeling in Smart PLS. The study reports ave...

Academic and industry interest in sustainable development has increased significantly, which is evident from the number of publications in recent years. To develop the field further, this study conceptualizes a framework to establish the nexus of Islamic Corporate Governance (ICG) and Sustainability Performance (SP) in Islamic Banks and Financial I...

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Abstract: This research paper investigates the impact of natural resources volatility on economic growth. The paper focused on three resource-rich economies, namely, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. Using data from 1970 to 2016 and employing the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration approach, we found that both natural resources and their...

Abstract Purpose – The African region has experienced relatively lower economic growth and higher outflow of migration over the years. The purpose of this research paper, therefore, is to focus on the African region to investigate whether or not there is any link between the poor economic growth and rising outflow of migration. Design/methodology/a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the contending role of important external inflows on the economic growth of Pakistan economy. The main purpose behind focusing on Pakistan is that it is receiving significant inflows from different international sources such as International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Asian Development Bank. Desig...

Abstract Purpose – This paper empirically examines the perceived relationship between banking sector performance and FDI inflows, thereby highlighting an underexplored area in the existing literature. Design/methodology/approach – To provide evidence from the South Asian context, this study selected five economies of the same region based on the da...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential impact of trade openness on economic growth for the economy of Brunei Darussalam. Design/methodology/approach Empirical analyses are conducted using the autoregressive distributed lagged model (ARDL) procedure and the data used were spanning from 1989 to 2018. Findings The obtained res...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate the contingency effect of natural resource abundance on the foreign direct investment (FDI)–growth relationship in a nonlinear (threshold) model. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the fixed effect threshold model for panel data with annual frequency for 83 countries and estimate threshold l...

ABSTRACT The purpose behind this paper is to empirically examine the relationship between trade openness and life expectancy for the Chinese economy. Data are collected for the period 1970–2015. Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Modeling technique is utilized to find out the presence of long- and short-run relationship between trade openness an...

The study takes on to gauge evolution of research culture in Pakistan with special focus to management sciences. The study is descriptive in script and exploratory in nature. Its primary analysis evolves around number of universities, PhDs produced, and their different contextual ratios. The study finds relatively recent emergence of certain streng...

Purpose The new growth literature in general is very optimistic about the positive impact that human capital has on the economic growth of countries. Based on this argument, the current paper focusses to investigate the impact of different types of human capital on economic growth. Design/methodology/approach The paper utilizes data for the period...

We perform simulations to assess the impact of a war between the US and Iran on global oil price behavior. To do so, we evaluate different levels of war intensity and oil price behavior from a multidimensional perspective. In this context, we simulate various scenarios using a simulator which is based on a complex algorithm and multidimensional coo...

The influence of corporate governance on quality of loan has rarely been explored in banking sector of Pakistan. This study, therefore, aims to investigate the effect of corporate governance on loan quality by employing relevant econometric specification such as panel fixed effect and 2SLS regression models, for the period 2005–2015. The findings r...

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This paper attempts to evaluate the impact of infectious and contagious diseases and Its final impact on the economic performance anywhere and anytime. We are considering to evaluate the case of Wuhan, China. We are taking in consideration the case of Wuhan coronavirus to be evaluated under a domestic, national, and international level impact. In t...

We evaluate the economic impact of the Wuhan coronavirus, a massive infectious and contagious disease, on China’s economic performance. To do so, we develop a new model, namely the Integral Massive Infections and Contagious Diseases Economic Simulator (IMICDE-Simulator) and apply it to the coronavirus outbreak. Our analysis based on the simulator i...

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The purpose of this study is to examine the bankruptcy profile of the Islamic banking industry in Pakistan for the post-crisis period 2007-2008. This study used Altman’s Z-score bankruptcy evaluation model for evaluating bankruptcy rates of the sampled Islamic banks from Pakistan for the post-crisis period 2009-2015. ANOVA result shows the P-value...

Abstract According to World Bank’s report of (2014), there are 585 PTAs notified by WTO in which approximately one third of total world’s trade take place. This paper empirically examines the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) on the inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) during the period 2000 to 2015. The feasible generalized leas...

The developing world in general is facing so many crucial problems including global warming in recent years. Global warming has multiple consequences on each segment of the society and therefore, its root causes are important to identify. The present study examines the impact of per capita income, trade openness, urbanization, and energy consumptio...

Terrorism is undesirable as it adversely affects the economic development of countries. This study explores the determinants of terrorism in 29 countries of sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA). The data is extracted from reliable sources spanning over 2005 to 2016. Econometric techniques relevant for panel data that control for unobserved heterogeneity (fixed...

We perform simulations to assess the impact of a war between the US and Iran on global oil price behavior. To do so, we evaluate different levels of war intensity and oil price behavior from a multidimensional perspective. In this context, we simulate various scenarios using a simulator which is based on a complex algorithm and multidimensional coo...

The study examines and highlights the impact of selected foreign inflows (aid, trade, FDI, debt and remittances) on the economic growth of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries. The existent literature lacks a comprehensive analysis of the SAARC countries as countries like Afghanistan, Bhutan and the Maldives have l...

This research will present different simulations to observe the final impact of a war between the U.S. and Iran and its impact on the world oil prices behavior. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate different levels of war intensity and oil prices behavior from a multidimensional perspective. This simulator evaluates different scenarios o...

We present a new model on the impact of terrorism on the Deglobalization process. The channels are faster poverty expansion, largest flows of refugees, expansion of trade protectionism, and last but not least, the dramatic expansion of economic desgrowth. This new model is entitled “The Deglobalization Global Evaluation Model (DGE-Model)”. The obje...

Purpose The trade–growth nexus has been researched during the past few decades. However, the impact of trade openness on different sectors of the economy is not well explored. The purpose of the current study is to focus on developing countries to examine the impact of trade openness on three main sectors: industrial, service and agricultural. Des...

This research will present different simulations to observe the final impact of a war between the U.S. and Iran and its impact on the world oil prices behavior. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate different levels of war intensity and oil prices behavior from a multidimensional perspective. This simulator evaluates different scenarios o...

This paper underlines an alternative multidimensional graphical approach to visualize the behavior of oil prices in different time periods. We present a new graphical method which is named as "The Infinity Physical Space (I-Physical Space)". The I-Physical Space is able to show the expansion or contraction of oil prices in a fixed time period. We h...

We present a new model on the impact of terrorism on the deglobalization process. The channels are faster poverty expansion, largest flows of refugees, expansion of trade protectionism, and last but not least, the dramatic expansion of economic desgrowth. This new model is entitled “The Deglobalization Global Evaluation Model (DGE-Model)”. The obje...

This research will present a new model on the study the impact of terrorism on the Deglobalization process through the evaluation of the faster poverty expansion, largest flows of refugees, expansion of trade closeness (several reductions of exports and imports simultaneously), and last but not least, the dramatic expansion of the economic desgrowt...

This research will present a new model on the study of the terrorism (terrorist attacks) on the process of Deglobalization through the evaluation of poverty (the fast expansion of inflation, unemployment, and scarcity of commodities), refugees (large leaking of human capital), openness (the reduction of exports and imports), and last but not least,...

This research will present a new model on the study of the terrorism (terrorist attacks) on the process of Deglobalization through the evaluation of poverty (the fast expansion of inflation, unemployment, and scarcity of commodities), refugees (large leaking of human capital), openness (the reduction of exports and imports), and last but not least,...

In recent years, the world is plagued by terrorism which has slowed down economic growth and development across countries. This paper focuses on the terrorism affected countries to determine what actually causes terrorism. The paper utilized a comprehensive sample of 94 countries from 2005 to 2016 and employed suitable econometric techniques to est...

In this paper, we propose a new model, namely the terrorism-trade and investment diversion simulator (TTID-Simulator). The simulator allows us to analyze the impact of terrorism on trade and investment diversion anywhere and anytime. Our central objective is to use the new model to evaluate the trade and investment diversion due to terrorism, and t...

This research investigates factors affecting liquidity of banks operating in Pakistan. Spanning from 2007 through 2016 the sample of the study includes 23 banks by employing relevant econometric specifications. The findings reveal that the internal factors such as capital adequacy ratio (CAR), cost of funds and bank size are statistically signific...

Purpose Trade openness plays a significant role in the growth process of countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of macroeconomic determinants on the trade openness of countries. Design/methodology/approach The study focuses on the SAARC member countries and the data utilized were from 1971 to 2011. Panel data econometrics...

The aim of the study is to empirically examine the applicability of Muncy & Vitell Scale in Pakistan and to identify its link with moral intensity and behavioural intention. A field survey research design targeting 410 general retail consumers of three major cities in Hazara region was adopted. Data analysis is carried out using descriptive statist...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the performance differences of Islamic and conventional banks in Pakistan by using financial ratios. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzed 5 Islamic and 19 conventional banks for the periods of 2007-2014. Two types of analyses were performed – sample t -test and logistic regression. Analysis was als...

This paper intends to establish conceptual foundations on the identification of standards and metrics for assessing the impact of hydrological hazards. The economic evaluation of flood damage cost model (EFDC-Model) attempts to estimate the impact of water occurrence, movement, and distribution on GNP growth. The model is based on seven basic indica...

This study examines the nature of competition in banking sector of Pakistan and assesses whether the banking sector is in long-run equilibrium or not. The study uses annual panel data for a sample of 30 banks, over the period 2007-2015 by employing Rosse-Panzar (1977) methodology. The findings show that banking sector of Pakistan is operating under...

This article proposes a new economic modeling theoretical framework known as multidimensional real-time economic modeling (MRTE-Modeling). The model is an important tool that economists and educators can use to demonstrate the multidimensional aspects of economic behavior. MRTE-Mod­eling facilitates the analysis of a series of complex and dynamic e...

This paper has examined the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in the developing countries in order to have a better understanding of the trade-growth relationship. Empirical analyses are carried out through panel fixed effects estimation procedure, and data are utilized for two samples of the developing countries for the perio...