M.S.M Khair-Afham · Anitha Rosland ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2022 ·JEL: E44, E51
This study has examined the impacts of credit supply shocks and other common economic shocks (aggregate demand & supply and monetary shocks) on Malaysia's macroeconomic variables, using the Bayesian structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) m...
Ali Albada · Nurhuda Nizar ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2022 ·JEL: G1, G4
COVID-19 is a highly contagious viral infection that has changed the world, with many human lives being lost. This study aimed to analyse investors' sentiment and stock market behaviour in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stock market...
Chin Chun How · Wong Hock Tsen ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
This study investigated the presence of abnormal returns surrounding stock split announcements and the determinants of cumulative abnormal return and the split factor. This study utilized the fnancial data of 45 corporations that had exerci...
Nurazilah Zaina · Fakarudin Kamarudin · Law Siong Hook · Mohammed Hariri Bakri · Fadzlan Sufian · Annuar Md Nassir ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: G01, G21, G28
This study delivers new empirical evidence on the impact of banking regulations on the levels of social and financial efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) between the years 2012 to 2018. The sample consisted of data from 172 MFIs...
Gani Ibrahim Musa · Zakaria Bahari · Azreen Hamiza Abdul Aziz ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2020
The primary purpose of the financial sector of an economy is financial intermediation. Financial intermediation activities of channelling funds from surplus to the deficit units in the economy including through capital market affect the eco...
Lian Kee Phua · Char-Lee Lok · Yong Xia Chua · Tan-Chin Lim ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2021 ·JEL: G32, M41
In the face of crises such as Covid-19, businesses become devastated by greater risk exposure, particularly in currency exchange, supply chain disruption, and fluctuation in commodity prices that cause volatile earnings trends. Higher earni...
Kelvin Lee Yong Ming · Mohamad Jais ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2021 ·JEL: G17, G23, I20
The COVID-19 outbreak significantly impacted the Malaysian stock market. To some extent, the Movement Control Order (MCO) implemented in the country affected the financial performance of listed companies. In consequence investors were quite...
Nik Hadiyan Nik Azman · Mohd Zaidi Md Zabri · Ema Izati Zull Kepili ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2021 ·JEL: A1, G0, G5, I3, O1, R2
Islamic microfinance is expanding and penetrating its potential market over the globe. Access to credit or financing, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, is vital for micro-entrepreneurs in climbing the socio-economic ladder that will...
Catherine S F Ho · Nur Hazimah Amran · Irfan Syarafuddin B Ab Aziz · Wahida Ahmad ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2021 ·JEL: G11, G12, G15, G23
Financial crises and the geopolitical issues around the world have caused much volatility in returns and market uncertainty. This trend of higher uncertainty in risk and return causes vast changes in stock and investment values, which cause...
Ooi Kok Loang · Zamri Ahmad ·Millennial Asia ·2022
This study examines the existence, tendency and determinants of herding in the Malaysian stock market under market stress from 2016 to 2020. This study adopts ordinary least square and quantile regression models to estimate herding. Three t...
J.S. Keshminder · Gurmit Kaur Bariam Singh · Zainora AB. Wahid · Mohammad Syafiq Abdullah ·Malaysian Journal of Consumer and Family Economics ·2019
Green Sukuk serves as an alternative form of finance which is equipped with both climate mitigation and Shariah compliance features compared to conventional finance. Acknowledging the superiority of green Sukuk to raise funds to mitigate cl...
Chi Truong · Jeffrey Sheen · Stefan Truck · James Villafuarte ·Journal of Financial Stability ·2022 ·JEL: C33, E44, G01, G17
This study develops an early warning system for financial crises with a focus on small open economies. We contribute to the literature by developing macro-financial dynamic factor models that extract useful information from a rich but unbal...
Izaan Jamil · Mori Kogid · Thien Sang Lim · Jaratin Lily ·Economies ·2022
This paper investigates the impact of soybean and crude oil futures on palm oil indexes by utilising monthly data from three palm oil indexes listed in Bursa Malaysia, i.e., the Asian palm index, Malaysian palm index, and Plantation index,...
Rahmat Heru Setianto · Rani Septiani Sipayung · W.N.W. Azman-Saini ·Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review ·2022
The objective of the article is to empirically investigates the role played by financial development in determining the relationship between working capital financing and firms’ performance. Employing data of publicly listed manufacturing f...
Neshaleni S. Paramanantham · Irene Wei Kiong Ting · Qian Long Kweh ·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: G31; G32; G34
This study examines the impact of ownership concentration on debt structure. Based on marketcapitalisation, we obtained financial and governance data from Top 100 public listed companies in Malaysia for the period 2011-2015. Ordinary least...