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Mehreen Furqan

Dr. Mehreen Furqan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration and holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Lahore school of Economics. She was awarded State Bank of Pakistan gold medal and a silver medal for being part of the Dean’s Honor List for MSc in Economics and Finance degree.

Her teaching experience spreads over vast areas of Economics, Finance and Accounting courses. She has been supervising research thesis for undergraduate, graduate and post graduate students including Bachelors, Masters and MPhils.

Dr. Mehreen has made significant contributions to the Finance Department through curriculum reviews and implementation of teaching standards. She is  part of the Peer Review Team for auditing classrooms and teaching at the Lahore School. Since a number of year she has consistently been part of teams preparing degree evaluation reports for the HEC with coordination of the Quality Enhancement Cell at the Lahore School.  

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Publications

  1. Umar, Muhammad, Mirza, Nawazish, Rizvi, S. Kumail. A., & Furqan, Mehreen. (2023). “Asymmetric Volatility Structure of Equity Returns: Evidence from an Emerging Market. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. Vol 87, pp 330-336.
  2. Salman, Sohnia; Umer, Mehvish and Furqan, Mehreen “Mediating Role of Destination Satisfaction between Ancedents of Revisit Plans of Tourists” Journal of Organizational Studies and Innovation. Vol 9, Issue 2, pp 1-20.
  3. Furqan, Mehreen (2018) “Why Firms Borrow? Is it a Need or Simply a Pursuit of Optimal Debt Ratio” Paradigms: A Journal of Commerce, Economics and Social Sciences. Vol 12, Issue 2, pp.179-183.
  4. Salman, Sohnia, Imran, Tehseen and Furqan, Mehreen (2018) “Factors Determining Research Productivity in Private Universities of Lahore: A Discriminant Analysis”. Pakistan Business Review, Vol 19, Issue 4, pp. 1045-1064.
  5. Amin, Sarmad and Furqan, Mehreen (2017) “Consumer Buying Behaviour of Smartphones in Pakistan” The International Journal of Business and Management, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 5 – 11.
  6. Furqan, Mehreen; Salman, Sohnia and Zafar, Sohail (2015) “The Impact of Grade Incentives and Gender on Student Performance: An Experiment” The Lahore Journal of Business, Vol 3, No. 2, pp. 79-92.
  7. Furqan, Mehreen and Mirza, Nawazish (2015), “Motives Behind the Use of Derivatives: Speculation or Hedging?” Pakistan Business Review, Volume 17, No. 2, pp 450 - 461
  8. Furqan, Mehreen and Ejaz, Maha (2014), “Publication Trends and Methodological Advancements in the Area of Agency Cost” Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Article-4, pp 57-86.

 

Working papers

  • Furqan, Mehreen and Rizvi, Syed Kumail, “Moderating Role of Life-cycle stage on the relationship of the Determinants of Debt Financing”
  • Furqan, Mehreen and Rizvi, Syed Kumail, “The Practitioner’s Perspective about the Capital Structure Choice” 
  • Furqan, Mehreen and Salman, Sohnia, “Oil Prices and Stock Market Returns in a Developing Economy”.

 

Awards

Scholarship for Global School in Empirical Research at the University of Saint Gallen, Switzerland, granted by the Global Business School Network  (2015)