Abdullah Imtiaz2016-04-142016-04-142015https://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/1780Supervisors: Dr. Muhammad Naveed TahirThis study empirically tries to find out the effect of bank specific factors on banks performance of Pakistani banks and how their performance is different from each other? To achieve this purpose the panel data of 19 (15 private & 4 National Commercial ) banks have been selected as a sample form the year ended 2009 – 2014 on quarterly bases by applying one of the most important technique GMM estimation approach proposed by Arellano and Bond (1991) using E views. The bank specific variables included net NIM, DTAR, CTIR, CAR, SIZE and ATDR. ROA and ROE were used as profitability measures.MS ThesisGMM estimation approachBank specific factorsBanks profitabilityThesis