Research Publications

1. Bilal, Nasir, A., Farooq, U., & Bashir, M. F. (2024). Stock returns, government response strategies, and daily new case bursts during COVID-19: A cross-country perspective. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 29(1), 465–485. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2694

2. Nasir, A., Farooq, U., & Khan, K. I. (2023). Expected Shortfall and Value at Risk as Alternative of Market Beta to Explain Cross-Sectional Stock Returns. South Asian Review of Business and Administrative Studies, 5(1), 27–40.

3. Farooq, U., Nasir, A., & Khan, K. I. (2023). An assessment of the quality of the search strategy: a case of bibliometric studies published in business and economics. Scientometrics, 128(8), 4855–4874. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04765-8

4. Nasir, A., Farooq, U., Khan, K. I., & Khan, A. A. (2023). Congruity or dispel? A segmented bibliometric analysis of Sukuk structures. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 16(2), 343–365. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMEFM-07-2021-0282

5. Hamid, S., Saeed, A., Farooq, U., & Alnori, F. (2022). A Bibliometric Retrospection of CSR from the Lens of Finance and Economics: Towards Sustainable Development. Sustainability (Switzerland), 14(24). https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416852

6. Farooq, U., Nasir, A., Bilal, & Bashir, M. F. (2022). The COVID-19 pandemic and stock market performance of transportation and travel services firms: a cross-country study. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja , 35(1), 6867–6883. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2053784

7. Farooq, U., Nasir, A., Bilal, & Quddoos, M. U. (2021). The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on abnormal returns of insurance firms: a cross-country evidence. Applied Economics, 53(31), 3658–3678. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1884839

8. Nasir, A., Farooq, U., & Khan, A. (2020). Conceptual and influential structure of Takaful literature: a bibliometric review. International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management, 14(3), 599–624. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMEFM-04-2020-0192

9. Farooq, U., Qamar, M. A. J., & Reddy, K. (2020). Impact size and determinants of indirect cost of financial distress: Role of receivable and inventory management. Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, 16(2), 179–207. https://doi.org/10.21315/aamjaf2020.16.2.8

10. Farooq, U. (2020). Prediction and Indirect Costs of Bankruptcy: A Multi-Stage Approach to Financial Distress [COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus]. http://prr.hec.gov.pk/jspui/handle/123456789/15948

11. Farooq, U., & Qamar, M. A. J. (2019). Predicting multistage financial distress: Reflections on sampling, feature and model selection criteria. Journal of Forecasting, 38(7), 632–648. https://doi.org/10.1002/for.2588

12. Farooq, U., & Jibran, A. Q. (2018). Scope, measurement, impact size and determinants of indirect cost of financial distress: A systematic literature review. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, 10(1), 111–129. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRFM-08-2017-0080

13. Farooq, U., Jibran Qamar, M. A., & Haque, A. (2018). A three-stage dynamic model of financial distress. Managerial Finance, 44(9), 1101–1116. https://doi.org/10.1108/MF-07-2017-0244

14. Nasir, A., & Farooq, U. (2017). Analysis of value at risk of Sukuk and conventional bonds in Pakistan. Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, 8(4), 375–388. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIABR-01-2014-0004

15. Farooq, U., & Jibran, A. Q. (2017). Firm Size as Moderator to Non-Linear Leverage-Performance Relation: An Emerging Market Review. Binus Business Review, 8(2), 99. https://doi.org/10.21512/bbr.v8i2.1711

16. Qamar, M. A. J., Farooq, U., Afzal, H., & Akhtar, W. (2016). Determinants of Debt Financing and Their Moderating Role to Leverage-Performance Relation: An Emerging Market Review. International Journal of Economics and Finance, 8(5), 300. https://doi.org/10.5539/ijef.v8n5p300

17. Farooq, U., Ashraf, A. A., & Ahmad, N. (2014). Investigating the Moderating Role of Firm Strategy in the Relationship Between Leverage and Performance. Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, 21(2), 341–346. https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.mejsr.2014.21.02.1767

18. Ul Din, S. M., Mughal, K. S., & Farooq, U. (2013). Impact of cost of marine and general insurance on international trade and economic growth of Pakistan. World Applied Sciences Journal, 28(5), 659–671. https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.28.05.1646

19. Yonus, Z. I., Farooq, U., & Nasir, A. (2013). Exchange rate and stock market volatility : A case of Pakistan. Journal of Business Administration and Management Sciences Research, 2(8), 187–190. http://apexjournal.org/jbamsr/archive/2013/Aug/fulltext/Younas et al.pdf

20. Raza, H., Aslam, S., & Farooq, U. (2013). Financing pattern in developing nations empirical evidence from Pakistan. World Applied Sciences Journal, 22(9), 1279–1285. https://doi.org/10.5829/idosi.wasj.2013.22.09.40

21. Farooq, U., & Nazir, M. S. (2012). An analysis of operating and financial distress in Pakistani firms. Elixir Finance, 44(3), 7133–7137.

22. Farooq, U., Nazir, M. S., & Nawaz, M. M. (2012). Operating or Financial Distress ? How much Costly these are ? American Journal of Scientific Research, 55(3), 96–108.