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Dr Yasir Bin Tariq

Dr Yasir Bin Tariq

Associate Professor

Area of Interest: Corporate Governance, Finance

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad.
  • MS Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad

Profile / Bio

Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq is an assistant professor of finance and corporate governance at the Department of Management Science, CUI Abbottabad Campus. He mainly teaches graduate program courses (MS & PhD) and supervises MS & PhD students. He served as Internship Coordinator - BBA & MBA from Spring 2014 to Spring 2021. Dr. Yasir also launched the departmental E-newsletter (The Aspire Zone) and served as its lead editor from Spring 2020 to Spring 2021. Dr. Yasir is also an experienced trainer and has delivered many trainings on Microsoft Excel, Managing Research, Mendeley for managing & citing literature, and effective teaching methodologies. 

Dr. Yasir has published both in reputed national and international journals. His research interest includes corporate finance, corporate governance, Fintech, and CSR, and actively collaborating with colleagues from economics specializations.

Academic Experience
  • Research Associate/ Teaching Assistant, February - May 2006, FAST National University, Islamabad
  • Visiting Facult, February-May 2008, FAST National University, Islamabad
  • Lecturer, February 2009-January 2015, CIIT Abbottabad Campus
  • Assistant Professor, January 2015-Till Date, CUI Abbottabad Campus
Industrial / Consulting Experience
  • Junior Executive - Leasing, September 2004-January 2005, Pak Elektron Ltd (PEL)
  • Assistant Manager Accounts, October 2005-December 2005, MSA Securities (Pvt) Ltd at Islamabad Stock Exchange
  • Manager Coordination (OSP), September 2006-February 2009, Head Office, FAST National University, Islamabad
Training Profile
Key Trainings Delivered
  • As a sole trainer for delivering an online training on “Microsoft Teams for Online Teaching” to Management Sciences faculty, CUI Abbottabad Campus. [April 2020]
  • As a co-trainer for delivering a training module on” Effective Teaching” in Govt. College of Management Sciences, Abbottabad [September 2019]
  • As a sole trainer in a full-day research training workshop for MS/M.Phil scholars & researchers: “Finding, managing & citing literature” at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad [April 2015; April 2016; April 2017, May 2018]
  • As a sole trainer in a full-day training workshop on MS-Excel for business graduates (BBA & MBA): “Excel with Excel” at COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad [December 2015, October 2017]
  • As a co-trainer in a five-day training workshop for Finance & Accounting officers of NHA: “Financial Management” at HRTC, NHA, Hassanabadal [October 2014]
  • As a sole trainer for the training of Invigilators in six districts of Hazara (Kohistan, Battagram, Mansehra, Torghar, Abbottabad & Haripur) for Grade-V examination to be held in KP [22-27 March 2015]
  • As a master trainer for orientation training of principals of participating higher secondary school and colleges in Prime Minister’s National ICT Scholarship Program-2014 [July 2014]
  • As a co-trainer for a five-day training workshop for Afghan Custom Officers at NIBAF Training Center, Islamabad [2012]
  • As a co-trainer for a 3-days training on Development and Capacity Building of Cooperative Societies, arranged by Mercy Corps,  USA at Muzaffarabad, AJK [12-14 Jul 2010]

Journal Publications

1. Fozia Taj,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Impact of CSR on Cost of Capital: Evidence from Pakistan Using a GRI-Based Country Specific CSR Index, Journal of Accounting and Finance in Emerging Economies, 2026
2. Majeed Ullah Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Dr. Humera Manzoor Assessment of Anchoring Effects in Cryptocurrencies Market, Journal of Management & Social Science, 2025
3. Muhammad Umer,Majeed Ullah Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Board’s Knowledge and Skills around Mergers and Acquisitions Deals in SAARC Region, Advance Journal of Econometrics and Finance, 2025
4. Saima Zarbat,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Impact of Afghan refugees on the labor market of Pakistan, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2025
5. Saima Zarbat,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Impact of Afghan Refugees on the Labor Market of Pakistan , Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2025
6. Zaheer Alam,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Corporate Sustainability Performance Evaluation and Firm Financial Performance: Evidence from Pakistan, Sage Open, 2023
7. Majeed Ullah Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Synergy OR Too Big to Fail: Empirical Analysis of Mergers and Acquisitions in SAARC and ASEAN Regions , Cogent Business & Management, 2023
8. Zaheer Alam,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure Quality and Firm Financial Performance: Evidence from an Emerging Economy, Global Business Review, 2022
9. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Syeda Qurat Ul Ain,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=303" title="Dr. Naveed Iqbal">Iqbal, N.</a> Impact of governance structure, infrastructure, and terrorism on tourism, Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, 2022
10. Zaheer Alam,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Quality of Environmental Sustainability Reporting and Financial Performance: Evidence from Pakistan, International Journal of Business and Management Sciences, 2022
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Muhammad Akram,Taimur Malik Does Capital Flight Undermine Growth: A Case Study of Pakistan, Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2022
12. Zaheer Alam,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Towards a Comprehensive Corporate Sustainability Performance Evaluation in Pakistan. An Investigation into Corporate Sustainability Disclosure Quality and Comparison of GRI and non-GRI Firms., Global Business Review, 2022
13. Majeed Ullah Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Sunk Cost Bias: Empirical Evidence on Underperforming Mergers and Acquisitions Deals from SAARC and ASEAN Regions, International Journal of Business and Management Sciences, 2022
14. Muddasir Riaz Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> An Investigation of Family Entrepreneurship in Ownership and Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan, Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 2022
15. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=272" title="Dr. Kashif Rashid">K.Rashid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Mamoon Ur Rehman Behavioural errors and stock market investment decisions: recent evidence from Pakistan, Asian Journal of Accounting Research, 2022
16. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,Amir Ejaz Convergence and Compliance of Corporate Governance Codes: A Study of Eleven Asian Emerging Economies, Corporate Governance, 2022
17. Abdul Mansoor,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a> The Dynamics of Monetarists Versus Keynesians Perspectives and Their Role in Economic Growth of Pakistan, Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 2022
18. Rizwan Khurshid,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> An Analysis of Service Provision Standards in Primary Health Care Facilities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakista, Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021
19. Zonaira Akbar,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> An analysis of political uncertainty and corporate investment cycles in Pakistan, Quality & Quantity, 2021
20. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=591" title="Dr. Muhammad Tahir">M.Tahir</a>,Ahmad Ali Jan,Syed Quaid Ali Shah,Md Badrul Alam,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=590" title="Dr. Asim Afridi">Asim Afridi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Foreign Inflows and Economic Growth in Pakistan: Some New Insights, Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, Volume 13, Issue 3, pp97-113 , 2020
21. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=591" title="Dr. Muhammad Tahir">M.Tahir</a>,Arshad Hayat,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=272" title="Dr. Kashif Rashid">K.Rashid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=590" title="Dr. Asim Afridi">Asim Afridi</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Human Capital and Economic Growth in OECD: Some New Insights, Human Capital and Economic Growth in OECD: Some New Insights, 2020
22. Ayesha Gulistan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a> Dynamic Relationship among Economic Growth, Energy, Trade Openness, Tourism and Environmental Degradation: Fresh Global Evidence , Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2020) Vol. 27 issue 12, 2020
23. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=272" title="Dr. Kashif Rashid">K.Rashid</a> Role of Managerial Competencies and Risk-Taking Behavior in Financial Service Outreach of Microfinance Banks in Pakistan, IBT Journal of Business Studies, Volume 15, Issue 2 pp25-42, 2019
24. Afeera Mobashir,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Capital Budgeting Decision Making Practices: Evidence from Pakistan, Journal of Advances in Management Research, 2019
25. Syed Mohsin,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=592" title="Dr. Malik Fahim Bashir">Bashir, M.F.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Outreach and Performance Analysis of Microfinance Banks in Pakistan, Business and Economic Review, 2018
26. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Afeera Mubashar Application of financial ratios as a firm’s key performance and failure indicator: literature review, Journal of Global Economics, Management and Business Research, 2017
27. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=585" title="Khurram Shehzad">Shehzad, K.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Portfolio Selection and Risk Management: An Introduction and Demonstration of Global Diversification Benefits, Journal of Global Economics, Management and Business Research, 2017
28. Aasma Ashraf,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Evaluating the financial soundness of banks: An application of Bankometer on Pakistani listed banks, The IUP Journal of Financial Risk Management, 2016
29. Mehwish Naseer,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> The Efficient Market Hypothesis: A Critical Review of the Literature, The IUP Journal of Financial Risk Management, 2015
30. Yasir Aziz,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> ISLAMIC BUSINESS PRINCIPLES, SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT AND PORTFOLIO PERFORMANCE. THE CASE OF PAKISTAN, Journal of Global Economics, Management and Business Research, 2015
31. Amir Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Muhammad Kamran Khan MODERN PORTFOLIO THEORY: A REVIEW OF LITERATURE, Journal of Global Economics, Management and Business Research, 2015
32. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=281" title="Muhammad Imran Qurashi">Muhammad Imran Qurashi</a>,Khalid Zaman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=267" title="Dr. Saeed Lodhi">Lodhi, S.</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Internationalization of higher education institutions: implementation of DMAIC cycle, Scientometrics, 2014
33. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Dr. Zaheer Abbas Compliance and multidimensional firm performance: Evaluating the efficacy of rule-based code of corporate governance, Economic Modelling, 2013
34. Imran Abbas Jadoon,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Sardar Abdul Hameed Corporate Governance in Financial Sector Companies of Pakistan: Current State and Room for Improvement, World Applied Sciences Journal, 2013
35. Dr. Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah,Dr. Safdar A Butt,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Use or Abuse of Creative Accounting Techniques, International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance, 2011
36. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a> Creative Accounting: The Financial Number Game, Insurance Journal, 2011
37. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Dr. Syed Tahir Hijazi Determinants of Capital Structure: A Case for Pakistani Cement Industry, Lahore Journal of Economics, 2006

Conference Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,MUhammad Ali Khan Impact of Corporate Governance on Technical Efficiency of Banks in Pakistan, , 2017
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=577" title="Dr. Yasir Bin Tariq">Tariq, Y. B.</a>,Dr. Safdar A Butt Impact of Corporate Governance on Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from Pakistan, , 2008
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