Dean, Faculty of Business Administration
Prof. Dr. Talat Afza
Phd (Wayne State, USA)
M.A (Wayne State, USA)
MBA (B.Z. University)
Email: talatafza@ciitlahore.edu.pk

Publications:

  1. Afza, Talat (1988), “The US – Canadian Auto Pact of 1965: A Case Study of Sectoral Trade Liberalization” Unpublished Ph. D dissertation, Department of Economics, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA.
  2. Afza, Talat (1989), “Scale Economies, Factor Substitution, Technical change and Unit Production Cost in the North American Auto Industry: Journal of Research (Humanities), Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan Pakistan vol. 5&6 PP. 69-95.
  3. Afza, Talat and M.A. Bodla, (1991), “Production Efficiency in the US – Canadian Automobile Industry.” Govt. College Economic Journal, Department of Economics, Government College Lahore, Pakistan. Vol. XXIII no. 1 & 2  pp. 27-58.
  4. Afza, Talat (1992), “The US- Canadian Auto pact of 1965: Free Trade in Perspective”. Journal of Research (Humanities) Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. Vol.9, pp 55-64.
  5. Afza, Talat (1993), “A victim of Ambition or Discrimination?” Workshop in case writing, organized by the Association of Management Development Institution on South Asia and Common Wealth Secretariat, London. September 4-9, Lahore, Pakistan.
  6. Bodla, M. A. and Talat Afza (1995), “Status and Prospects of the Informal Sector of Pakistan”. International Seminar on Productivity Organization (APO) Japan and Pakistan Industrial Technical Assistance Center, (PITAC) Lahore, Pakistan. December 4-8.
  7. Afza, Talat (1995), “Konya Industries (Pvt.) Limited: Evaluation of a Company for Working Capital Financing” seminar on case study organized by Pak-American Institute of Management Science, Lahore, Pakistan December.
  8. Afza, Talat (1996), “Economics of Quality Management” Workshop on Quality Management organized by the Pak-American Institute of Management Sciences, Lahore, February.
  9. Afza, Talat (1996), “Financial Appraisal” International Workshop on Marketing Techniques organized by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the Pakistan Institute of Entrepreneurship Training (PIET), Lahore, Pakistan. April.
  10. Afza, Talat (1996), “Structural Adjustment Package of IMF and Pakistan.” Proceedings of IBA National Conference on Business Administration and Economics, Karachi, Pakistan, July.
  11. Bodla M. A. and Talat Afza (1997) “Status and Prospects of the Informal Sector of Pakistan.” Pakistan Economic and Social Review, the University of Punjab, Vol. XXXV, no.2, pp 153-181.
  12. Afza, Talat (1998), “Ethical Behaviour and Allocative Efficiency” Proceeding of the National Conference on Professional Ethics organized by the Pak- American Institute of Management Sciences, Lahore, July.
  13. Afza, Talat (1998), “Finance Function in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises” Seminar on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises organized by PITAC Lahore, Pakistan August 27.
  14. Afza, Talat (1998), Structural Adjustment Package of IMF and Pakistan” Journal of Research (Social Sciences), Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. Vol. 15, pp. 56-57.
  15. Afza, Talat (1999), “Equity Markets of Pakistan: Entering into the NEW Millenium” Proceedings of twelveth All Pakistan Statistical Conference, (PSA.XXII) Lahore, Pakistan Statistical Association, institute of Statistics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Vol. XIX, no. 22, pp. 261-270.
  16. Afza, Talat and Ali Salman (2000), “Impact of Reduction in the Lending Rates” Pakistan & Gulf Economist, Vol. XIX, no. 21,pp.37 – 38 May22-28.
  17. Afza, Talat and Bodla (2000), “Pakistan – Japan Economic and Trade Relations” Forthcoming, proceedings of the International Conference on Globalization: Pakistan – Japan Economic and Trade Relations organized by Department of Economics, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad and Japan Foundation, Japan. October 24-25.
  18. Afza, Talat (2000), “Ethical Behavior and Allocative Efficiency” Vol. xxxviii, No. 2 pp 129 – 144, Pakistan Economics and Social Review, The University of Punjab, Lahore.
  19. Afza, Talat (2000), “Pakistan-Japan Trade: Current Scenario and Future Prospects” Pakistan & Gulf Economist, Vol. XIX, no. 48, pp. 33-35 Nov, 27- Dec. 3.
  20. Afza, Talat (2001), “Exogeneity Test of Automobile Industry” paper presented at the Seventh Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences, organized by Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, The University of Lahore, Pakistan, January 2-5.
  21. Bodla, M. A. and Talat Afza (2001) “Modified Non-nested Tests for Errors in Variable Models” Proceedings of Eighth Statistics Seminar – 2001 University of Karachi, July 23-25. Vol. VIII, PP 139-148.
  22. Bodla, M.A. and Talat Afza (2002) “Asymptotic Powers of IV-Modified Non-Nested Tests” presented at 2002 South East Asia Meeting of the Econometric Society, held on December 28-30, 2002 at Lahore, University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Lahore.
  23. Afza, Talat (2003) “Women in Management: challenges and Prospects” presented at the seminar on changing Role of Women in Management, held at NUST sponsored by British Council, Gender Equality Project. March, 01.
  24. Afza, Talat (2004) “Financial Appraisal of Projects” 5-day workshop (March 9-13) for Senior Civil Servants organized by the Civil Services Academy of Pakistan, Lahore.
  25. Afza, Talat and Mahmood A. Bodla (2004) “Pakistan – Japan Economic and Trade Relations”, in Globalization: WTO, Trade and Economic Liberalization In Pakistan edited by Dr. M. Aslam Chaudhary and Dr. Eatzaz Ahmed, published by Ferozsons (Pvt.) Ltd. pp. 123-134
  26. Afza, Talat (2005) “Gulf European Free Trade Agreement: A Case for Regional Trade Cooperation”, Published in the Proceedings of 8th Islamic Countries Conference on Statistical Sciences (ICCS-VIII) organized by Islamic Society of Statistical Sciences (ISOSS) Vol. 13 pp 393-404, December 19-22, Lahore, Pakistan. ISBN 969-8858-01-6
  1. Afza, Talat, Mian Sajid Nazir and Ch. Salahuddin (2006) “Diversification and Firm’s Financial Performance: Evidence from a Developing Economy” Proceedings of The First International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics (ICoMS-1), June 19-21, Bandung, Indonesia.
  1. Afza, Talat and Ammara Mahmood (2006) “Effects of Financial Liberalization on the Cost efficiency of Pakistani Banks: A Stochastic Frontier Approach”, presented at International Accounting Conference III (INTAC-III), June 26-28, International Islamic University Malaysia.
  1. Afza, Talat and Mian Sajid Nazir (2007) “Economic Competitiveness and Human Resource Development: An FDI Perspective” (2007), Presented at Conference on WTO, Trade and Human Development, January 24-25, 2007, Organized by Department of Economics, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan and United Nations Development Program (UNDP).  
  1. Afza, Talat and Mian Sajid Nazir (2007) “Working Capital Management Practices of Firms: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan”, Proceedings of 9th South Asian Management Forum (SAMF), February 24-25, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh pp. 234-241
  1. Afza, Talat, and Mian Sajid Nazir (2007) “Economic Competitiveness and Human Resource Development: An FDI Perspective”, Pakistan Economic and Social Review, Vol. 45 No. 2 pp 167-180
  1. Afza, Talat and Mian Sajid Nazir (2007) “Is it Better to be Aggressive or Conservative in Managing Working Capital?” Proceedings of Singapore Economic Review Conference (SERC) 2007, August 01-04, Organized by Singapore Economics Review and The University of Manchester (Brooks World Poverty Institute), Singapore pp 97-98.
  1. Afza, Talat and Sh. Muhammad Adnan (2007) “Determinants of Corporate Cash Holdings: A Case Study of Pakistan” Proceedings of Singapore Economic Review Conference (SERC) 2007, August 01-04, Organized by Singapore Economics Review and The University of Manchester (Brooks World Poverty Institute), Singapore pp 164-165.
  1. Afza, Talat and Choudhary Slahudin (2007) “Role of Institutional Investors and Firm Performance in an Emerging Market” Proceedings of Singapore Economic Review Conference (SERC) 2007, August 01-04, Organized by Singapore Economics Review and The University of Manchester (Brooks World Poverty Institute), Singapore pp 98-99.
  1. Afza, Talat and Chaudhary Salaudin (2007) “Ownership Concentration and Firm Performance in Pakistan” Presented at INFORMS Midwest Regional Conference, August 24-26, Illinois, USA
  1. Afza, Talat and Mian Sajid Nazir (2007) “Is it Better to be Aggressive or Conservative in Managing Working Capital?” Journal of Quality and Technology Management Vol.3 No. 2 pp 11-21
  1. Afza, Talat and Sajid Nazir (2008), “A Panel Data Analysis of Working Capital Management Policies” Proceedings of COMSATS International Conference on Management (CICM) 2008, January 02-03, Organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, pp 115-123.
  1. Afza, Talat and Muhammad Amir Rashid (2008), “Women Entrepreneurship: Problems and Prospects” Proceedings of COMSATS International Conference on Management (CICM) 2008, January 02-03, Organized by COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, pp 374-381.
  1. Afza, Talat, Mian Sajid Nazir and Ch. Salahuddin (2008) “Diversification and Corporate  Performance:  An Evaluation of Pakistani Firms”  South Asian Journal of Management, Vol. 15  No. 3  pp. 7-18 
  1. Afza, Talat and Mian Sajid Nazir (2008) “Working Capital Approaches and Firms’ Returns” Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences, Vol.1, No. 1, pp. 25-36.
  1. Afza, Talat and Mian Sajid Nazir (2008) “On the Factors Determining Working Capital Requirements” in the proceedings of 15th Annual Conference of American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences held on February 21-24, Las Vegas, U.S.A.
  1. Afza, Talat and Amir Rashid (2008) “Marginalized Women Social Wellbeing through Enterprise Development: A Glimpse of Remote Women Status in Pakistan” in the Proceedings of International Conference on Well-Being: are we Happy with Our Standard of Living, organized by Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Università degli Studi di Cassino, September 26-27, 2008, Italy.
  1. Afza, Talat and Ali Rauf (2008) “Performance Evaluation of Pakistani Mutual Funds” in the proceedings of Fourth International Conference on Global Research in Business and Economics, organized by Global Academy of Business and Economic Research, September 17 – 19, 2008, Orlando, USA.
  1. Mahmood,  Ammara and Talat Afza  (2008) “Total Factor Productivity Growth in East Asia: A Two Pronged Approach”  European Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Sciences, Vol.14, pp. 93-113.
  1. Abdul Rehman, Talat Afza, Abdul Qayyum and Mahmood Ahmed Bodla(2008), “Estimating Total Factor Productivity and its Components: Evidence from Major Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan” Pakistan Development Review, vol. 47, no. 4, forthcoming. 
  1. Nazir, Mian Sajid and Talat Afza (2009), “Working Capital Requirements and the Determining Factors in Pakistan” ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 28-38.
  1. Afza, Talat and Choudhary Slahudin  (2009)  “Management Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence From An Emerging Economy” Corporate Ownership and Control  Journal, Vol.6, No. 4, pp. 88-95
  1. Abdul Rehman, Talat Afza, Abdul Qayyum and Mahmood Ahmed Bodla(2009), “Estimating Total Factor Productivity and its Components: Evidence from Major Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan” presented at The 24th Annual General Meeting and Conference of the Pakistan Society of Development Economist, organized by Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, March 31- April 2, 2009.
  1. Afza, Talat and Mian Sajid Nazir (2009) “Impact of Working Capital Aggressiveness on firms’ profitability” presented at International Applied Business Research Conference held on March 16-19, at Sana Ntonio, USA . 
  1. Afza, Talat and Amir Rashid (2009) “Marginalized Women Social Wellbeing through Enterprise Development: A Glimpse of Remote Women Status in Pakistan” Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. Forthcoming  
  1. Khan, Mahmood Shah and Talat Afza (2009), “Greenfield in Pakistan: Is It Really Green? An empirical Study” presented at the Second Annual International Business Conference, organized by Global Strategic Management Inc., August 13-15, 2009, Deatborn, Metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, USA
  1. Afza, Talat and Ali Rauf (2009) “Performance Evaluation of Pakistani Mutual Funds” submitted after review to Pakistan Social and Economic Journal.
  1. Afza, Talat and Choudhary Slahudin  (2009), “Ownership Concentration And Firm Performance In Pakistan” submitted for publication to South Asian Journal of Management (SAJM).
  1. Nazir, M.S and Talat Afza (2009) “Impact of Aggressive Working Capital Management Policy on Firms’ Profitability” The IUP Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 19-30.
  1. Nazir, Mian Sajid and Talat Afza (2009), “A Panel Data Analysis of Working Capital Management Policies” Business Review Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 143-158. 
  1. Afza, Talat and Mahmood Shah Khan (2009), “Greenfield in Pakistan: Is It Really Green”? An Empirical Study. American Journal of Scientific Research, Issue 4. Forthcoming.