Said Zamin Shah · Ahmad Zubaidi Baharumshah · Rusmawati Said · Rafiqa Murdipi ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2019
This study examines the effects of global economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on Malaysia's macroeconomic indicators. Three substantive findings emerged from our inquiry based on a multivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heterosce...
Vickie Siew-Hoon Yew · Abul Quasem Al-Amin · Evelyn S Devadason ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: F14, F10, F19
The import intensive food processing sector in Malaysia is highly regulated with non-tariff measures (NTMs) from the import side. However, the ad-valorem equivalents (AVEs) of those NTMs vary substantially across the subsectors of food proc...
Afiza Idris · Normaz Wana Ismail · Shaufique Fahmi · Ahmad Sidique · Shivee Ranjanee Kaliappan ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2020 ·JEL: C41, F10, F14
Furthering future growth for the food processing industry in Malaysia faces multiple challenges, an area in which a recent trend shows the competitiveness of the exported processed food industry is declining. The sustainability of export fl...
Beng Ann Tee · Siew Yean Tham · Andrew Jia Yi Kam ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: F1, F14, L8
ICT intensive services were found to contribute to the service export growth in developed countries. However, empirical work on the role of ICT in ASEAN’s services export is sparse due mainly to the scarcity of bilateral services trade data...
Abdul Rahim Ridzuan · Vikniswari Vija Kumaran · Bayu Arie Fianto · Mohd Shahidan Shaari · Miguel Ange Esquivias · Aliashim Albani ·International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy ·2022
Over the past forty years, Malaysia has achieved tremendous economic growth because of higher investment from foreigner such as from China, Japan, and US. Many multinational companies (MNC) have allocated their factories especially in more...
Chia Lin Chang · Yu-Hui Wang · Kuo-I-Chang ·Emerging Markets Finance and Trade ·2022 ·JEL: F14, F10, F61
This study performs survival analysis to evaluate duration of revived and new machinery import and the hazard ratios (HRs) of covariates related to the global financial crisis (GFC) and COVID-19 pandemic in the Association of Southeast Asia...
Arif Imam Suroso ·Economies ·2022
Palm oil is one of the most traded vegetable oils in the global market due to its versatile usage and having a lower price than competitor products. Trade is related to logistics performance as it connects the exporter and importer countrie...
Noor Zahirah Mohd Sidek · Bhuk Kiranantawat · Martusorn Khaengkhan ·Economies ·2022
In the present paper, we show how uncertainty emanating from fluctuations in economic uncertainty, news-based uncertainty, and geopolitical risks affect the number of containers exported from Thailand via Penang Port, Malaysia. Our sample e...
Mohd Azlan Shah Zaidi · Zulkefly Abdul Karim · Noor Amirah Zaidon ·Economies ·2022
Movements in palm oil price give important signals to various stakeholders of the palm oil industry in Malaysia. Thus, understanding external and internal factors that may affect the palm oil price is vital to the industry players for susta...
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh · Le Chang · Yemo Zhang ·The Chinese Economy ·2019
With trade volume registering more than US$10 billion in recent years, Malaysia has already been China’s largest Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) trading partner since 2008 and its third biggest Asian trading partner after Jap...
Yuegang Song · Ruixian Huang · Sudharshan Reddy Paramati · Abdulrasheed Zakari ·Economic Analysis and Policy ·2021
This study empirically examines the impact of economic integration on stock market co-movements of India with major Asian markets such as China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. We collect daily d...
Siew Yean Tham · Soo Khoon Goh · Koi Nyen Wong · Ahmad Fadhli ·Emerging Markets Finance and Trade ·2018 ·JEL: F21
In light of a change in the foreign direct investment (FDI) landscape such as the rapid growth of outward FDI from Malaysia since 2007, this article ascertains the possible impact of inward and outward FDI on Malaysia’s bilateral export tra...