Siew-Pong Cheah · Lin-Sea Lau · Chee-Keong Choong ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2021 ·JEL: D3, D63, G51
Most past studies have assumed a symmetric relationship between income distribution and household indebtedness. Therefore, linear or symmetric modelling would miss possible asymmetric relationships between income distribution and household...
Siti `Aisyah Baharudin · Hayyan Nassar Waked · Mohd Shah Paimen ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2021 ·JEL: A1, D1, E7
This research attempts to analyze households’ responses to Movement Control Orders (MCO) and assess the impact of MCO on consumer confidence based on the potential disproportionate impact on various income groups in Malaysia. Households’ re...
Norhanishah Mohamad Yunus · Norehan Abdullah ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2022 ·JEL: F20, F35, F61, J24, C21, L6
Using a set of absorptive capacity proxies, we present new empirical findings on the role of absorptive capacity in assimilating the technology effects from the presence of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the Malaysian manufacturing in...
Loo Sze Ying · Mukaramah Harun ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
This paper estimated the reactions of frms and households to the change of government expenditure from fuel subsidies to two alternative fscal regimes, including the expansion of government expenditure on agricultural investment and direct...
Ee Shiang Lim · Jacqueline Liza Fernandez ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2022 ·JEL: C13, D12
With the entrance of Uber into the land transportation industry, ride-hailing service has gained popularity and changed the way people travel in urban areas in Malaysia. Despite the growing popularity of this new mode of cab service, studie...
Mohd Adib Ismail · Sharlily Shahira Mat Nasir ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
Financial resources are an important factor in investment decisions. Access to fnancial resources is a key determinant to increase productivity and consequently generate frm growth. This paper aims to investigate the impact of fnancial cons...
Nurul Nabila Yusof · Shahareh Shahidi Hamedani · Mazzlida Mat Deli · Mohd Helmi Ali · Mara Ridhuan Che Abd Rahman ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2022 ·JEL: L66, P23
This study aims to empirically examine the migrant food handlers’ perceived knowledge, skills, and attitudes and their impact on food quality and safety in the context of Malaysia’s foodservice industry. Using the data gathered from 198 sup...
Maria Kontesa · Rayenda Khresna Brahmana · Gesti Memarista ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2020
This study aims to examine the role of product market competition on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) by engaging altruism and utilitarianism views. Using dynamic Generalized Method of Moment panel regression for 524 Malaysian non-fina...
Cai Yunchao · Selamah Abdullah Yusof · Ruzita Mohd Amin · Mohd Nahar Mohd Arshad ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2020
Using data collected from urban households in the Klang Valley, Malaysia, this study examined the impact of household debt on urban household consumption decisions. The findings revealed that household debt does not generally affect consump...
Siong Hook Law · M.N.A. Naseem · Anitha Roslan · Nirvikar Singh ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2021 ·JEL: G29, O11, O43
This study examines the effects of business (enterprise) credit and household credit on economic performance in Malaysia. The World Bank’s Doing Business report ranked Malaysia at number one among developing countries in terms of ease of ge...
Gary John Rangel · Jason Wei Jian Ng · Thiyagarajan M Murugasu · Wai Ching Poon ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2019
Housing affordability has been an important issue for both developed and developing countries. Prior literature has used the price-income ratio as the main standard to assess housing affordability with the median disposable household income...
Angayar Kanni Ramaiah ·Malaysian Journal of Consumer and Family Economics ·2019
The digital economy relies on digital computing technologies and online platforms and its consumer market is based on the internet and the World Wide Web. Its rapid technological progress is very innovative and disruptive. Digital market re...
Rahmah Ismail · Syahida Zainal Abidin · Mohd Nasir Mohd Saukani ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
Worker’s quality is very crucial to enhance effciency level in an organisation. Workers of high quality are always associated with high effciency and productivity, which subsequently increase competitiveness of an organization. In the Malay...
Sulistiyo K. Ardiyono ·Economic Analysis and Policy ·2022 ·JEL: D22, L2, L6, L8
Numerous studies have explored the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on firms’ financial performance, but the link between such performance and employment has rarely been estimated rigorously. Using the ASEAN-5 firms’ data from Q1-2018 to Q3-...
Asma Rashidah Idris · Muzafar Shah Habibullah · Badariah Haji Din ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
The “old-age security” and “complete substitutability” hypotheses suggest that fnancial market can affect individuals’ decision to have less or more children. It has been recognised in the literature that at low level of fnancial developmen...