MS (Finance) (BUIC): Recent submissions

  • Implications of Behavioral Anomalies and Personality on Investors' Affinity for Risk 
    Semab Khalid (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    Affinity for risk is defined as a measure of investors’ tendency toward risk, in whether they seek or avert risk. The study measures affinity for financial risk in terms of behavioural biases and personality traits. The ...
  • Risk and Return Analysis of Stock Splits 
    Farhan Ahmad Salam, 01-297151-004 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    The purpose of this study is to check whether stocks splits optimize the stock returns and the risk associated with it. Using risk adjusted event study methodology, this study got conducted on listed stocks of NYSE and ...
  • GCC Stock Markets, Weak-Form Efficiency 
    Ahmed Dawood Abdo Al-Mashari, 01-297152-001 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    After the Malkiel and Fama explanation of market efficiency conditions in 1970, twenty years of huge effort in research has been made to study different markets' efficiency which became critical for both investors and stock ...
  • Identification of Behavioral Biases in Financial Advisors and Investors 
    Sonia Almas, 01-297151-016 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2015)
    This study aimed at identifying the behavioral biases causing irrational behavior of financial advisors and investors. For this purpose and based on the results of literature research various behavioural biases causing ...
  • Taxonomy of Investor Behavioral Biases : A Study of BB&K Model 
    Hassan Mehmood Bhatti, 01-297151-006 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    Human decisions both financial and social, are very much affected by the demographic characteristics they have, personality they carry and the society where they live. It leads them towards taking mental shortcuts and ...
  • Factors Affecting Earning Management : Evidence from Banking Sector of Pakistan 
    Adeel Tariq (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    The purpose of this study is to analyze the motivational factors behind the manipulation of the earnings. Earning management is defined as judgments of the managers while reporting the financial earnings. It is mostly used, ...
  • Impact of Credit Risk Management on Financial Performance of Leading Commercial Banks in Pakistan 
    Farhad Jadoon, 01-297141-005 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    This study attempted basically to measure the impact of credit risk management on the performance of top ten selected Pakistani Private commercial banks for the period 2011- 2015. It is evaluatory, sketch sources of ...
  • Role of Emotional Intelligence as Moderator on Relationship between Motivation and Financial Decision Making 
    Maryum Tariq (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    The current study intended to investigate primarily, the dependency of motivation on financial decision making and the influence of motivation exerted on financial decision making, in the presence of emotional intelligence ...
  • Determinants of Capital Structure of Energy Sector in Pakistan 
    Amir Mehmood, 01-297141-001 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    Value of firm’s Capital Structure has always been burning issue. From management perspective capital structure is a very healthy mean to control the cost of capital. Different ways of financing its assets can be adopted ...
  • Factors Influencing Dividend Policy : Evidence from Electricity Sector of Pakistan 
    Waqas Haider (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    One of the important decisions company is to decide about company’s dividend policy. The main purpose of paying dividend is that companies want to attract more investors, satisfy existing once and maintaining a good ...
  • Behavioral Biases & Investment Decisions : Single-Asset VS Portfolio Investors 
    Shaheer Kamal Dar, 01-298151-015 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2017)
    Behavioral biases affecting investment decisions are no longer a delusion as there are many studies confirming the existence of behavioral factors. This research also has a purpose of pointing out and testing the presence ...
  • Factors affecting share prices in banking sector of Pakistan: evidence from KSE 100 of Pakistan 
    Muhammad Junaid Akram, 01-297142-018 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    This study investigates the “Factors affecting the stock prices of commercial banks in Pakistan”, the stock prices of commercial banks firms in Pakistan can be affect by both internal and external factors. For this purpose, ...
  • Efficient market hypothesis and low risk anomaly 
    Imranullah Mateen (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    High-Risk stocks have offered a combination of relatively high risk and high losses. We decomposed the stocks into micro and macro components for identification of risk and returns relationship, and the existence of ...
  • Dividends and profitability: evidence from Pakistan textile sector 
    Javeria Nawaz Abbasi, 01-297142-012 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    This chapter offers a brief introduction to the concept of dividends, definitions, different views regarding dividend policy by different authors and how they affect firm performance and what are the factors, which influence ...
  • Integration between stock markets of Pakistan and Emerging Countries 
    Waseem Ahmed, 01-297141-020 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2015)
    The research is focused on finding the integration between stock market of Pakistan and other Emerging countries i.e. to know whether there are co movements in the stock exchanges due to influencing changes in other ...
  • Indicators of Insurance Development in Pakistan 
    Wardah Siddiqui (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2015)
    Insurance development plays a vital role in a country’s economic and financial growth. The financial sector and in particular the insurance sector indicates a country’s socio-economic development. The insurance industry ...
  • Effect of global diversification on firms value 
    Muhammad Uzair Jamal (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    In English literature Diversification means “change” and in finance it means to reduce or to eliminate risk. (Frank K.et al 2005) Uncertainty that is unquantifiable in nature prevails in business both in systematic and ...
  • The Righteousness of CAPM for Capturing Bankruptcy Risk 
    Ahmed Islam, 01-297142-001 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    The important risks that investors and corporate managers face are liquidity risk and bankruptcy risk. Capital Asset Pricing Model is one of the most applied methods developed for corporate managers to calculate the cost ...
  • Evaluate the performance of banking sector in Pakistan with approach of Data Envelopment Analysis 
    Qasid Ahmed, 01-297142-021 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    This study measures the relative efficiency of 21 commercial banks in Pakistan for the period of 2009-2014 with an integrated approach includes Data Envelopment Analysis. It uses four inputs (deposits, interest expense, ...
  • The impact of FDI and domestic investment on economic development, a comparative analysis form Pakistan and China 
    Anum Shahid, 01-297142-005 (Bahria University Islamabad Campus, 2016)
    The literature is consisting the impact of foreign direct investment and domestic investment on economic development of host country. We take the case of two countries, Pakistan and China during the period of 1990-2014. ...

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