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Item ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS IMPACT ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY IN SOUTH ASIAN REGION(UMT, Lahore, 2023-02-06) SAMINA JABEENIn this modern age of globalization, no country can ignore the role of financial development sector to achieve Sustainable Economic Development using different techniques for reducing environmental pollution. The present study discusses Achieving Sustainable Economic Development through financial development and its impacts on Environmental Quality in selected countries of South Asian RegionItem IMPACT OF FDI REGULATORY POLICIES ON FDI INFLOWS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES(UMT, Lahore, 2023-02-27) QUARRAT-Ul-AINForeign direct investment (FDI) inflow is considered the lifeline of the developing countries because it enhances the employment opportunities which increase the economic activities. The present study deals with FDI regulatory policies which influence the FDI inflows in developing countries. This study has tried to achieve the two objectives as to examine the FDI regulatory restrictiveness index (RRI) on FDI inflows and ease of doing business (EDB) on FDI inflows in the developing countries. To achieve these objectives, the panel data of 39 developing countries from 1997 to 2020 is used by using the FGLS econometric approach. The empirical results found that RRI proposes the U-shaped relationship to determine the FDI inflows. The linear affect found that all developing countries lie on the left side of the U-shaped curve which shows the inverse relationship between RRI and FDI inflows. Furthermore, this study also explores that EDB also propose U-shaped relationship to determine the FDI inflows. The linear affect shows that Azerbaijan, Brazil, Croatia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Montenegro, Peru, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, and Thailand lie on the right side of the U-shaped curve which shows that EDB increases FDI inflows. This study recommends that developing should decline the FDI restriction and increase the opportunities of ease of doing businesses.Item An Essay in Financial Macroeconomics(UMT, Lahore, 2023-05) Adil Ahmad MughalThis thesis takes a fixed-point method of construction for idiosyncratic risk in the US financial market, S&P-500 in particular, for a financial macroeconomic general equilibrium result with the help of a very basic yet innovative DSGE modeling. Instead of a linear and complete financial market equilibrium in isolation this approach allows for a nonlinear general equilibrium in an explicit financial market bent. The fixed-point, alongside another, measure of idiosyncratic risk used for the very first time through this thesis for a combined financial macroeconomic equilibrium is found to be especially very useful for empirically modeling inflation as compared to the output gap.