Impact of Volatility on Firm Sales Growth Some Insights from Pakistan

Abstract

This paper empirically investigates how firm level, industrial level, market level and macroeconomic volatilities influencePakistani non-financial firms’ sales growth. It also examines how interactions between different kinds of volatilities affect sales growth. The empirical analysis is carried out using unbalanced annual panel data set covering the period 1988-2017.The results indicate that although all types of volatilities assert negative impacts, the intensity of the impact is quite different across different volatilities. Macroeconomic volatility has the highest adverse impact followed by firm volatility. Unexpectedly, the results provide evidence that one type of volatility significantly reduces the adverse impact of other type of volatility. These findings imply that firms may design and implement more effective sales growth strategies in periods when they face more than on type of volatility.