This paper examines the impact of corporate governance rules and regulations and financial leverage on the market value added in Pakistan. Market value added (MVA) is our dependent variable and corporate governance and financial leverage are our independent variables and examine their combined effect on the market value added. This study will help the Pakistani firms who are going to lever their firms and going to practicing the corporate governance rules and regulations. For this purpose we have taken the listed non-financial companies of Pakistan from 2006-2015 because they are actively practicing the corporate governance rules and regulations. The results indicate that the proxy variable of corporate governance which is board size also have the significant and negative impact on the MVA in Pakistan. Interest coverage ratio indicates that if the firm's ability to pay its interest expenses increases as results MVA also increases. Debt ratio is the proxy variable of financial leverage which is our next independent variable. By the help of our regression model we concluded that Debt also have the positive significant effect on the market value added on the firms in Pakistan. It means if a firm wants to increase their market value they should go for the debt instead of equity. Debt will help firms in Pakistan to increase their market value.

China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is game changer series of projects for Pakistan initiated by China under its main project of One Belt One Road (OBOR). It is the largest investment ever made in Pakistan by a single foreign country. This study contributes in literature by examining the impact of CPEC on stock returns using event study approach. Sample period under investigation is since 2013 (inception of CPEC) to 2019. To further analyze whether this effect differs across sectors, we estimate the cumulative abnormal returns over sectors. Moreover, this paper attempts to explore whether the impact of CPEC is penetrated even to firm level or not. For this purpose, the median equality test is used to examine the impact of CPEC on financial and operational performance of non‐ financial firms listed in Karachi Stock Exchange. It is found that the impact of CPEC on stock market is positive but insignificant which shows that exceptionally good performance of stock market may not be attributed to CPEC. The effect of CPEC is mixed at sectoral level too. Nevertheless, significant positive effect is observed at financial and operational performance of firms.