Specimen Project Titles

Research Methodology & Research Project CLASS: BBA/
BSc. IV
Course Instructor: Syed Toqueer Akhter
Specimen list of Project titles
A specimen list of proposed titles has been attached herewith to facilitate students in
topic/ title finalization. These titles under different subject headings should preferably
be made more specific/ specialized by stating the application area/ orientation of the
study.
Tax, Taxation, Tax Issues or Policies and Taxation under WTO Regime:
• An analysis of Taxation policies and Social Equity in Pakistan
• Causative factors of Narrow Tax Base and Low tax to GDP ratio in Pakistan
• Extent and causes of Tax Evasion in Pakistan
• Determinants of Tax Avoidance culture (any country/region)
• Incidence of Direct Taxes and Economic Growth
• Impact assessment of Direct Taxes upon Capital Flight
• Tax concession (or holidays) to encourage Foreign Investment in Pakistan
• An analysis of Tax concessions/rebates on Sectoral Performance
• Changing Tax Revenue composition: Impact assessment of Free Trade Policies
• WTO agreements and tax reforms in Pakistan (Agreements on agriculture, trade in goods and services,
subsidies, TRIPs, TRIMs)
• Efficiency of Federal Board of Revenue: The Corruption analysis
• Determining the Optimal size of Average Burden of Taxation

BSc. IV
• Determining the Optimal size of Marginal Rate of Taxation
• Tax cuts as Supply Side policy tool in Developed Countries
• Fiscal Federalism and Optimal Taxation Policies
• Fiscal Decentralization and Optimal Taxation Policies
• Tax Reforms to promote Income Redistribution
• Issues of Tax Base and the Taxation Network in Pakistan
• Incidence of Indirect Taxes: Some Sectoral Analysis
• Consumerism, Consumer Societies and Tax Reforms
• Sectoral Analysis of Tax Multiplier
• Inter-governmental Fiscal Relations (finance awards, centre-state revenue mechanism)
• Issues in Tax Collection Management (comparison: state, public private partnership, private agencies)
• Fiscal issues in District government (authority, transfers, collection, expenditure allocation mechanism)
• Provincial level Resource Mobilization (authority, transfers, collection, expenditure allocation mechanism)
• Parallel Economy and Tax Revenue (regional comparison: tax base and rates)
BSc. IV
Budget, Budgetary Status, Budgetary Policies, Budget Deficits and Deficit Financing:
• Comparative Analysis of the Budgetary Structure and Composition in Pakistan with Sweden
• Budgetary Policies for the development of Infrastructure
• Budgetary Policies for the development of Human Capital
• Budgetary Policies to promote R&D and Technological Transfer
• Budgetary Policies to attract FDI
• Budgetary Policies and Tax Reforms to encourage Foreign Portfolio Investment
• Millennium Development Goals (set for Pakistan by UNDP) and Budgetary Practices
• Budget Deficits, Modes of Deficit Financing and Inflation in Pakistan

BSc. IV
• Deficit Financing and Exchange Rate Volatility
• Determining the Optimal Size of Budget Deficit
• Deficit Financing, Internal Debt and Debt Servicing Issues
• Deficit Financing and Aid Dependency
• Aid Dependency, External Debt and Debt Servicing Issues
• Changing Composition of Foreign Aid and Geopolitics
• External Debt, Debt Rating and Sovereignty
• Impact assessment of Aid Conditionalities
• Bilateral Tied loans and Imported Inflation
• Sustainable Debt and Inter-generational Equity
• Social Development: A Regional Comparison (allocation, size, programs)
Consumer Banking
 Consumer Banking Trends and practices in Pakistan: A Review of Literature.
 Profile of Consumer Banking in Pakistan.
 Urban concentration of Consumer Banking in Pakistan: A critical analysis of trends
and factors.
BSc. IV
 Indigenous bankers as Consumer banks : A study of rural credit markets in
Pakistan
 Assessing efficacy and efficiency in consumer banking: A critical review of
methods in practice.
 Comparative analysis of foreign and domestic Consumer Banking service quality
and diversity.
 Banking reforms and Consumer Banking practices in Pakistan.
 Collusions, anti-trust and efficiency of Consumer Banking in Pakistan: Estimation
and Analysis.
 Market structure, competition and marketing strategies for Consumer Banking in
Pakistan.
 Job evaluation in Consumer Banking: Critical review of conventional methods and
need for instrumental development.
 Banking reforms and International policy coordination in Consumer Banking :
Policy & performance gaps

BSc. IV
Investment Climate:
 Assessing Investment Climate: Review of Literature
 Corporate Governance, Reforms and Investment Climate in Pakistan
 Cross sectional analysis of Investment Climate in Pakistan
 Assessing Investment Climate for SME sector in Pakistan
 A Time series analysis of Investment Climate in Pakistan
 Economic globalization, International policy coordination and Investment Climate
in Pakistan: Concerns and prospects
 Institutional efficacy, Foreign investment and the Investment Climate in Pakistan
 Aid dependency, debt rating and Investment Climate in Pakistan.
 Investment Climate and commercial data vendors: Review of methodologies and
forecast accuracy.
 Modeling Investment Climate obstacles: A mathematical programming approach.
 Investment Climate, risk and portfolio diversification: A case study of
manufacturing sector in Pakistan.

BSc. IV
International Organization for Standardization:
 International Organization for Standards: Review of Literature
 Technical Barriers to Trade and ISO certification: Issues and Challenges for
Pakistan.
 Measuring comparative advantage of getting ISO 9000 series certification: A case
study of Textile sector in Pakistan
 Measuring comparative advantage of getting ISO 140000 series certification: A
case study of Textile sector in Pakistan
 State of human resources, ISO 21000 series and International policy coordination:
A case study of Pakistan.
 An analysis of factors of motivation for seeking ISO 140000 series certification: A
cross sectional study of textile sector in Pakistan.
 `Environmental sustainability and ISO 14000 series certification: An analysis of
potential gains.
 Environmental policy in Pakistan and International policy coordination: Critical
review of policy and perform lags.
 Impact assessment of ISO 9000 series on SME sector in Pakistan

BSc. IV
Micro-Finance:
 Micro-finance: A Review of Literature
 Micro-finance: An analysis of poverty & social impacts in Pakistan
 Women empowerment and micro-finance in Pakistan
 Micro-finance, community participation and endogenous growth: A case study of
Pakistan
 Monitoring and evaluation of micro-finance lending programs
 Gender norms in micro-finance
 Micro-finance, employment and employees welfare: A case study of Pakistan
 Impact of farm credit : A case study of Rural credit markets in Pakistan
 Social capital, civil liberties and Micro-finance: A case study of Pakistan
 Indigenous bankers and micro-finance:

BSc. IV
Change Management:
 Change Management: A Review of Literature
 Assessing organizational change: A critical review of methods and practices.
 Prevailing practices of change management: A case study of textile sector in
Pakistan.
 A knowledge based perspective of change management: An application on textile
marketing.
 An analysis of motivation of change and its adaptability.
 Leadership styles and change management.
 Organizational development, knowledge creation and change management.
 Change agents and stake holders in change management.
 Managing change: Improving efficacy of decision making.
 Decision support system for effective management of change.
 Modeling restraints and constraints of change: A mathematical programming
approach.
BSc. IV
Urban Development:
 Needs assessment of urban growth projects: A critical review of methods in

practice.
 Monitoring and evaluation of developmental projects.
 Urbanization, deforestation and environmental hazards: A case study of urban

Pakistan.
 Rural Urban differentials and urbanization in Pakistan: An analysis of socio-

economic factors.
 Determinants of urban poverty in Pakistan: estimation and analysis.
 Sustainability and inter-generational equity of urban development in Pakistan.
 Urban governance and strategic urban planning in Pakistan: A critical review

of policy and performance gaps.
 Modeling causative factors of rural-urban wage differential.
 Urbanization in housing markets in Pakistan.
 Urbanization in Pakistan: Future projection and challenges for sustainability.
 Political economy of urban management in Pakistan: An analysis of stake-

holders and key players.
BSc. IV
Corruption, Transparency and Governance:
 Corruption: A survey of literature.
 Corruption, Corporate Governance and productivity: A case study of Pakistan.
 A cross-section study of corruption perception in Pakistan .
 Dynamics of corruption in Pakistan: A regime switching analysis.
 Foreign aid, corruption and institutional effectiveness in Pakistan.
 Corruption and legal (in)efficiencies: A case study of Pakistan.
 Corruption, political victimization and accountability: A case study of Pakistan.
 Corruption and prospects of foreign investment in Pakistan.
 A critical review of anti-corruption reforms in Pakistan.

BSc. IV
Advertising
 Barriers to entry and brand Advertising: An analysis of short term and long
term sunk costs
 Impart assessment of risk seeking attitude of firms on Advertising budgets
 Ethnical Advertising: Socio-Cultural imparts of advertising
 Advertising efficiency and the choice of media mix.
 On measuring short term effectiveness of Advertising: A critical review of
methods in practice
 Long term Advertising effectiveness: A critical review of conventional methods
and need for instrument development.
 Determining efficiency of Advertising: A game theoretic approach
 Determining the optimal size and control of Advertising

BSc. IV
Inflation
 A critical appraisal of anti-inflationary policies in Pakistan.
 Inflation and distributive justice in Pakistan.
 How Inflationary expectations are formed: A critical appraisal of Lucas critic.
 Growth sustainability through Inflation targeting: A case study of Pakistan
from 1960 to 2005.
 Inflation perception , corruption and portfolio decision
 Privatization, Anti trust and Inflation in Pakistan: An analysis of performance
and policy gaps
 Optimal monetary policy for effective control of inflation in Pakistan

BSc. IV
Interest Rate
 A survey of literature on Interest Rate Theories & determinants.
 Modeling determinants of the Lending Interest Rate in Pakistan: A time series
analysis from 1960 – 2005.
 Modeling determinants of the Deposit Interest Rate in Pakistan: A time series
analysis from 1960 – 2005.
 Aid conditionality and the interest rate policy in Pakistan.
 Interest Rate Spread and Foreign Investment in Pakistan.
 Interest rate targeting & sustainability in Pakistan.

BSc. IV
 A regime switching analysis of Interest Rate volatility in Pakistan.
Capital Markets in Pakistan
 Stock Market: A survey of literature.
 Profile of Capital Markets in Pakistan.
 Political stability & the stock market volatility: A case study of Pakistan.
 Risk, Portfolio diversification & Investment in stock market: A mathematical
Programming approach.
 Macro Economic factors of stock market performance: An application of
Arbitrage Pricing Model.

BSc. IV
 Assessing stock market performance: A critical review of conventional
methods in Pakistan.
 Deregulation of Stock Markets in Pakistan.
 FDI and performance of Stock Market in Pakistan.
 Sustainability of capital markets and central banking: A critical review of
Reforms and Policy gaps
 An analysis of Capital Asset Pricing model in KSE.
 Investment climate & Stock Market sustainability.
 Critical assessment of monetary regulations and reform for stock market
sustainability in Pakistan.
Money Supply
 Autonomy of state bank of Pakistan and growth in money supply
 Political regime, budget financing and money supply in Pakistan
 Exogenous growth in money supply

BSc. IV
 Money illusions and inflationary expectations
 Analysis of determinants of money supply in Pakistan
 Endogenous money supply and economic growth in Pakistan
 Political economy of growth and money supply in Pakistan
 Monetary transmission mechanism in Pakistan; a critical analysis of competing

propositions
 Money supply and interest rate targeting
 Money supply and inflation targeting
Micro-finance 2
 Microfinance and sustainable rural development, community participation
 Needs assessment of micro-finance schemes
 Indigenous banks and practice of micro-finance in rural credit markets
 Impact assessment of micro-finance in building social capital in rural settings

BSc. IV
 Productivity impact of farm credit in Pakistan
 Gender norms of micro-finance in Pakistan
 Monitoring evaluation of micro-finance group lending programs
 A critical appraisal of micro-finance policy in Pakistan
OR
 Micro-finance policy in Pakistan: Performance and policy gaps
Globalization and Labor Market in Pakistan
 Labor Performance and Export Competitiveness in Pakistan

BSc. IV
 Labor Efficiency, Labor Laws/Policies and International Policy Coordination: key

Challenges and Issues
 Globalization of Labor Markets and International Migration of Labor: A cross

sectional study of motivation of globalization in employees
 State of Human Capital in Pakistan: An Analysis of Performance Gap
 Globalization, good governance and Labor Efficiency
 Globalization Corporate Governance and labor welfare
 Globalization, Deregulation and collective bargaining of labor
 Globalization and labor market segmentation in developing countries
 Globalization and employment security
 Globalization, international policy coordination and incidence of child labor in

Pakistan
HRM Practices in Consumer Banking
 Market segmentation and restructuring of job designs
 Privatization, deregulation and job (in)security in the banking sector of Pakistan

BSc. IV
 Evaluation of HRM programmes in the consumer banking sector of Pakistan
 An application of multi attributes Utility analysis application of HRM
 Job designs and job scheduling in consumer banks in Pakistan: A critical Analysis
of performance gaps
 Modeling causative factors of organizational commitment in consumer banking
 Accessing employees performance in consumer banking : and analysis based
upon consumer driven satisfaction
 A comparative analysis of performance dynamics in domestic and foreign banks
of Pakistan
 A cross sectional analysis of socio economic factors of performance
 A critical appraisal of methods of performance evaluation in consumer banking
 Performance implications of organizational structure and work flow
interdependence upon employees efficiency
 Performance implications of urban concentration upon employees performance
 Impact assessment of banking reforms and international policy coordination
upon HRM practices in consumer banking

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Research Methodology & Research Project CLASS: BBA/

Course Instructor: Syed Toqueer Akhter

Specimen list of Project titles

• An analysis of Taxation policies and Social Equity in Pakistan

• Extent and causes of Tax Evasion in Pakistan

• Determinants of Tax Avoidance culture (any country/region)

• Incidence of Direct Taxes and Economic Growth

• Impact assessment of Direct Taxes upon Capital Flight

• Tax concession (or holidays) to encourage Foreign Investment in Pakistan

• An analysis of Tax concessions/rebates on Sectoral Performance

• Changing Tax Revenue composition: Impact assessment of Free Trade Policies

subsidies, TRIPs, TRIMs)

• Efficiency of Federal Board of Revenue: The Corruption analysis

• Determining the Optimal size of Average Burden of Taxation

Course Instructor: Syed Toqueer Akhter

• Determining the Optimal size of Marginal Rate of Taxation

• Tax cuts as Supply Side policy tool in Developed Countries

• Fiscal Federalism and Optimal Taxation Policies

• Fiscal Decentralization and Optimal Taxation Policies

• Tax Reforms to promote Income Redistribution

• Issues of Tax Base and the Taxation Network in Pakistan

• Incidence of Indirect Taxes: Some Sectoral Analysis

• Consumerism, Consumer Societies and Tax Reforms

• Sectoral Analysis of Tax Multiplier

• Inter-governmental Fiscal Relations (finance awards, centre-state revenue mechanism)

Course Instructor: Syed Toqueer Akhter

• Budgetary Policies for the development of Infrastructure

• Budgetary Policies for the development of Human Capital

• Budgetary Policies to promote R&D and Technological Transfer

• Budgetary Policies to attract FDI

• Budgetary Policies and Tax Reforms to encourage Foreign Portfolio Investment

• Budget Deficits, Modes of Deficit Financing and Inflation in Pakistan

Course Instructor: Syed Toqueer Akhter

• Deficit Financing and Exchange Rate Volatility

• Determining the Optimal Size of Budget Deficit

• Deficit Financing, Internal Debt and Debt Servicing Issues

• Deficit Financing and Aid Dependency

• Aid Dependency, External Debt and Debt Servicing Issues

• Changing Composition of Foreign Aid and Geopolitics

• External Debt, Debt Rating and Sovereignty

• Impact assessment of Aid Conditionalities

• Bilateral Tied loans and Imported Inflation

• Sustainable Debt and Inter-generational Equity

• Social Development: A Regional Comparison (allocation, size, programs)

 Consumer Banking Trends and practices in Pakistan: A Review of Literature.

 Profile of Consumer Banking in Pakistan.

 Urban concentration of Consumer Banking in Pakistan: A critical analysis of trends

Course Instructor: Syed Toqueer Akhter

 Indigenous bankers as Consumer banks : A study of rural credit markets in

 Assessing efficacy and efficiency in consumer banking: A critical review of

 Comparative analysis of foreign and domestic Consumer Banking service quality

 Banking reforms and Consumer Banking practices in Pakistan.

 Collusions, anti-trust and efficiency of Consumer Banking in Pakistan: Estimation

 Market structure, competition and marketing strategies for Consumer Banking in

 Job evaluation in Consumer Banking: Critical review of conventional methods and

need for instrumental development.

 Banking reforms and International policy coordination in Consumer Banking :

Policy & performance gaps

Course Instructor: Syed Toqueer Akhter

 Assessing Investment Climate: Review of Literature

 Corporate Governance, Reforms and Investment Climate in Pakistan

 Cross sectional analysis of Investment Climate in Pakistan

 Assessing Investment Climate for SME sector in Pakistan