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Art & Science of Leadership
May 19, 2018
Objectives of the Session: Leadership as an art with examples. Leadership as a science with examples. Leadership v/s Management Speaker’s Profile: Faisal Khosa is the author of over 100 peer reviewed articles and has received over 6 million dollars in grants. His mentoring has helped over 1,000 students secure training positions in USA, Canada and Europe. Faisal is an invited
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Does Income Inequality Cause Credit Booms?
May 19, 2018
Speaker’s Profile: Dr Tanveer Shehzad is Associate Professor in Finance at SDSB-LUMS. His research is focused on strategic and competitive issues faced by firms operating in developing countries, macroeconomic challenges faced by Pakistan, empirical analysis of corporate finance theories, risk-taking behavior of financial firms, supervision and regulation of banks, banking crises, sovereign credit ratings and financial
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Current Account Deficit and Policy Response
May 19, 2018
Abstract: This policy paper studies the current macroeconomic conditions in Pakistan and suggests a policy responses to imbalances in the external, fiscal and monetary sectors in Pakistan. Pakistan underwent higher than tend growth in past 2-3 years. However, this growth was accompanies by rising current and fiscal account deficits. Moreover, during the same period the central bank followed an expansionary monetary
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A Time-Varying Analysis on the Weak-Form Efficiency of Crude Oil Prices
May 19, 2018
Speaker’s Profile: Syed Aun R. Rizvi joined Suleman Dawood School of Business at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in 2016. Previously Aun had served University of Nottingham as an Assistant Professor for two years where he contributed towards establishing the Centre for Islamic Business and Finance Research (CIBFR) at University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. Aun holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Finance
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