Siong Hook Law · Tamat Sarmidi · Lim Thye Goh ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: O11, O31, O43
This study empirically investigates the effect of innovation on economic growth using the neoclassical economic growth model. Embarking from the traditional labour growth, physical capital and human capital framework, innovation is postulat...
Jia-Jun Gabriel Yau · Siow-Hooi Tan ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2022 ·JEL: O33, O40
This study re-investigates the presence of the Kuznets curve in the context of Malaysia, by employing an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach. We seek to examine the non-linear impacts of economic growth on income inequality by in...
My-Linh Nguyen · Toan Ngoc Bui ·Economies ·2021
This paper focuses on examining the nonlinear impact of trade openness (TO) on economic growth (EG) in the Asean-6 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and Vietnam). In order to achieve the set research objectiv...
Evan Lau · Jaime Moll de Alba · Kim-Hing Liew ·Economic Analysis and Policy ·2022
External debt levels have increased dramatically over the past decades. Many Asian developing countries are trapped in unprecedented levels of indebtedness while utilizing a high level of external debt for fiscal activities. This study empi...
Chia-Guan Keh · Pei-Tha Gan · Yan-Teng Tan · Fatimah Salwa Binti Abd. Hadi · Norasibah Binti Abdul Jalil ·International Journal of Sustainable Economy ·2022
Determining the relationship between financial development and economic growth is important to make precise projections of economic growth. As most of these studies rely on a symmetric relationship, they can lead to misleading policy implic...
Leonard Fong Litt Lam (University Putra Malaysia)) · Siong Hook Law · W. N. W. Azman-Saini · Normaz Wana Ismail ·Millennial Asia ·2022
This article analyses the importance of high-technology trade as a channel of economic growth to ease Malaysia out of the middle-income trap. This study also wonders upon the missing absorptive capabilities that validate the likelihoods of...
Guohui Chen · Jie Zhang ·Emerging Markets Finance and Trade ·2022
The ASEAN countries are in a golden stage of development, although the uneven regional development remains a prominent challenge to integrated growth. The study tries to investigate regional inequality in ASEAN countries from an outer space...
Abdul Rasheed Sithy Jesmy · Mohd Zaini Abd Karim · Shri Dewi Applanaidu ·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: H56; O40; F50
The direct and indirect causes of armed conflict in South Asia is perhaps the single most important reason for increasing military expenditure. It is also a significant threat to the growth of national output in the region. This study exami...
Chee-Lip Tee · Azman Saini · Saifuzzaman Ibrahim ·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: F14; F21; O31
This paper is an empirical assessment of the impacts of globalisation on innovative activity across developing countries. The focus is on the role of trade and capital account openness. Extreme-Bound-Analysis (EBA) approach is applied to an...
Cosimo Magazzino · Marco Mele · Nicolas Schneider ·Journal of Economic Studies ·2021 ·JEL: O41, C32, E10
The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the economic convergence that operate between five selected Asian countries (namely Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia). In particular, it seeks to investigate how i...
Sonia Kumari Selvarajan · Rossazana Ab-Rahim · Nor-Ghani Md-Nor ·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: F13; O16; O53
East Asia Pacific has catapulted to be the most dynamic region in the world as a result of economic liberalisation and sustainable growth. This study seeks to investigate if selected East Asian countries are able to converge in terms of tra...
Xuefeng Qian · Kalsoom Rafi Que · Yingna Wu ·China and World Economy ·2020 ·JEL: F14, F16, J23, O10
As a large trading nation, China competes with importing countries’ domestic and thirdcountry markets but also creates growth opportunities for exporters. Most studies on China trade shocks or “China shocks” focuse on the impacts of import...
Christopher Gan · Rafiatul Adlin Hj Mohd Ruslan · Baiding Hu · Nguyen Thi Thieu Quang ·International Journal of Business and Economics ·2020 ·JEL: L26; O53
This study investigates the relationship between access to microcredit and SMEs’ performance. Using survey data on SME’s owners/managers in Terengganu, Malaysia in 2016, the study investigates how access to microcredit affects SME sales and...
Yusniliyana Yusof · Kaliappa Kalirajan ·Journal of Economic Studies ·2020
The study contributes to the aim of regional development policy in reducing regional disparities, by examining the spatial balance in socioeconomic development across the states of Malaysia based on composite development index (CDI). Beside...
Mohammad Sharif Karimi ·International Economic Journal ·2018 ·JEL: C22; O11
In this study, we examine the nonlinear relationship between international tourism arrival and economic growth of Malaysia by using asymmetric models over the periods 2000:1–2015:4. The results show that the tourism arrival is positively re...