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Hamid Waqas is currently affiliated with Westminster International University in Tashkent as Senior Lecturer. He has earned his PhD in Finance from Universiti Utara Malaysia which is an AACSB University. His Core area of research is Financial Distress and Portfolio Management. His research is currently focusing on PPP success and its Implementation in Malaysian Context, Sports sentiments and Stock exchange performance, and Asset Pricing Modeling in the context of emerging economies.
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The governments have been facing the challenges to develop tailored strategies to decrease COVID vaccine hesitancy (CVH) and refusal and increase the acceptability and uptake to ensure the protection of public health. In Pakistan, it has been a great challenge for the government to increase the acceptability of the COVID vaccine. CVH has been a gre...
Working in a toxic environment makes it harder to be productive. This study examines the direct impact of Machiavellianism and professional envy on research productivity (individual and group) with the moderating role of knowledge-hiding behaviors. For this purpose, through convenience sampling, an online survey through Google Docs was conducted, a...
he purpose of the study is to investigate the gender differences among newly diagnosed cancer patients from the cultural perspective of Pakistan. The data comprised two equal groups: men (50%) and women (50%). Most participants were 31–45 years old, and the duration of the cancer diagnosis was less than 6 months (74.6%). The data was collected on t...
The purpose of the study is to investigate the gender differences among newly diagnosed cancer patients from the cultural perspective of Pakistan. The data comprised two equal groups: men (50%) and women (50%). Most participants were 31–45 years old, and the duration of the cancer diagnosis was less than 6 months (74.6%). The data was collected on...
The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic outbreak has a significant influence on both peoples' physical and psychological health. Healthcare workers remained most vulnerable to COVID-19 due to requirement of their job. The current study examines terror of COVID-19 and depression along with self-control among the nurses in Pakistan. The cross-sectional s...
The recent covid 19 has increased the challenges for worldwide businesses to manage working capital. Compared to the studies on the financial crisis of 2008, management of working capital and firm performance relation during the covid 19 is less studied, particularly in developing countries. Therefore, this study examined the working capital manage...
This study’s aim is to determine whether or not medical students in Pakistan are willing to use online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as their perception of and satisfaction with online learning. The study also analyzed the relationship between technology-related stress and computer self-efficacy among medical students. This cross-s...
Foreign Capital Inflows (FCIs) have been contributing to economic growth and development of the capital-deficient developing economies. The FCIs to developing economies include Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), remittances, and Official Development Assistance (ODA). Previous empirical studies have concluded mixed impacts of FCIs on Human Development...
Microplastic pollution has emerged as a severe transboundary threat to natural ecosystems, marine environments, and human and nonhuman health. Microplastic pollution and its consequent impacts on natural ecosystems and habitats have attracted the attention of experts, environmentalists, researchers, academia, decision-makers, and the governments ac...
This study aims to provide the groundwork for further investigations into the relationship between educational expenditures and economic growth. This investigation lends credence to earlier conclusions about the amount of money spent by the federal government on education. Both the state governments and the federal government make financial contrib...
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of technostress on the teachers’ willingness to use online Teaching Modes, with the moderating role of job insecurity in Pakistan.
Design/methodology/approach
Holistically, this study collected 242 samples using the convenient sampling technique for data collection. The response rate was 6...
Purpose: This paper incorporates a growth-inequality-environmental triangle using country-specific annual time series data. Impacts of income inequality, manufacturing output growth, foreign direct investment (FDI), and education expenditure on carbon emission in Pakistan.
Design/Methodology: The study has used time series data for the analysis of...
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The present study aims to identify and evaluate the socioeconomic barriers to effective COVID-19 pandemic transmission control in Pakistan.
Design/methodology/approach
The study identifies multiple socio-economic barriers through an extensive literature review. The preliminary analysis unveiled 15 socio-economic barriers. Nine experts were...
The ongoing crisis of the Coronavirus of Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has caused tremendous human, social, and economic costs globally. Major economies across the continents have been struggling to contain COVID-19 pandemic and flatten the infected curve. The present study focusses on the critical review of the strategies opted globally for the...
This study aims to advance theoretical knowledge on investment intentions of individual investors from the perspective of behavioural finance. Based on literature review, it is found that risk avoidance, uncertainty avoidance and perceived risk significantly influence the investment intentions of individuals. However, studies on behavioural finance...
The budgetary pressures, scarcity of resources, and incessant increases in the demand for public services have driven the Malaysian government to involve the private sector in the development of infrastructure through public–private partnership (PPP) projects. Despite the benefits of PPP projects in different regions, including Malaysia, various PP...
The world is facing the observable and direct impacts of climate change in the shape of extreme weather events, irregular precipitation, glacial melt, sea-level rise, an asymmetric average temperature trends, higher oceanic temperatures, damage to natural ecosystems, and biodiversity. In 2015, collective wisdom stirred the global community to agree...
This study is intended to identify the predictors of financial distress for the Pakistani firms. Variables used are the financial ratios representing profitability, liquidity, leverage, and cash flows, as well as two important market factors which are size and idiosyncratic standard deviation of each firm’s stock returns (SIG). The sample consists...
Predicting financial distress have significant importance in corporate finance as it serves as an effective early warning system for the related stakeholders. The study applies the most admired financial distress prediction O-score model and compares its predictive accuracy with estimated logit model. The study estimates logit model by including th...
Occupational health and safety aims at promotion and maintenance of physical, mental and social health of employees. Unfortunately the conditions in a developing country like Pakistan are worse regarding safety at work. This study examines the effect of Occupational Injuries and Turnover Intention among workers in Pakistan with moderating role of S...
Occupational health and safety aims at promotion and maintenance of physical, mental and social health of employees. Unfortunately the conditions in a developing country like Pakistan are worse regarding safety at work. This study examines the effect of Occupational Injuries and Turnover Intention among workers in Pakistan with moderating role of S...
Globalization and extended liberalization of the economies, during the last two decades, has made possible the transnational movement of capital. This capital movement includes the flows of foreign direct investment across economies. Pakistan economy is one of the beneficiaries of inflows of foreign direct investment. On the other hand, Pakistan ec...
Environmental degradation has been a major source of concern for the developing countries of the world especially during last two decades. The environmental quality has become on stake in the process of achieving prime objectives of higher and sustained economic growth, employment generation and poverty alleviation. Extended levels of consumption o...
Environmental degradation has been a major source of concern for the developing countries of the world especially during last two decades. The environmental quality has become on stake in the process of achieving prime objectives of higher and sustained economic growth, employment generation and poverty alleviation. Extended levels of consumption o...
The study is focused on the analysis of financial development and growth in Pakistan economy for the period of 1972-
2011. Cointegration techniques and Granger causality test based on the block exogeneity (Wald test) has been applied
for the analysis. The cointegration test confirmed the long run association among the inflation, credit to private s...
Present study is focused to examine the effects of foreign capital flows on domestic investment in Pakistan economy for the period of 1972-2013. Time series econometric techniques like unit root test, Johansen cointegration and Granger causality methods have been used for the data analysis. Long run cointegration relationship has been found between...
The purpose of this research is to determine that does leadership styles that is Transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style has an impact on employee performance. Also we wish to see that if job satisfaction has a mediating effect or not. For this purpose data was collected from 6 schools working in Rawalpindi and Islamaba...
Questions
Question (1)
I have applied White-regression test for data with Hetero problem and results shows C = -2683.89 and R sqr is .94. Is it considered as spurious regression or its can be valid as all the 4 explaining variables are highly significant.
Thank you
