Public Economics

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The asymmetric link between public debt and private investment in Malaysia

Siew Yee Lau · Ai Lian Tan · Chung Yee Liew ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2019

This paper intends to examine the existence of asymmetric effect of public debt on private investment in Malaysia. As Malaysia's public debt has been rising in recent years the question has been raised on whether the persistently high debt...

COVID 19: The Impact of Government Policy Responses on Economic Activity and Stock Market Performance in Malaysia

Chia-Guan Keh · Yan-Teng Tan ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2021 ·JEL: G10, G12, G18, H51, I18, O40

The exponential spread of the coronavirus in Malaysia has caused a significant majority of the economic activities to cease, resulting in poor stock market performance. This pandemic situation has in turn prompted the government to introduc...

Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth across States: New Evidence from Malaysia

Judhiana A. Ghani · Mohamad Khair Afham · Muhamad Senan · Asna Atqa Abdullah · Norashidah Mohd Noor ·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2021 ·JEL: H72, H77, E62, F34

The link between fiscal decentralisation and state-level economic growth has often been overlooked, particularly in Malaysia, with its highly centralised federal fiscal system. Thus, using data from all 13 Malaysian states from 2006 to 2018...

Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth in Malaysia: A Market Preserving Federalism Perspective

Judhiana Abd. Ghani · Bhajan Grewal · Abdullahi D. Ahmed · Norashidah Mohamed Nor ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019

By using fiscal datasets from 1990 to 2010 in Malaysia, a panel Dynamic-OLS (DOLS) is employed to investigate the extent to which fiscal decentralisation can support state level economic growth as proposed in the Market preserving federalis...

Zakat and waqf as instrument of Islamic wealth in poverty alleviation and redistribution: Case of Malaysia Shaikh Hamzah Abdul Razak

Shaikh Hamzah Abdul Razak ·International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy ·2020

Purpose Zakat has a strong humanitarian and social-political value. Zakat occupies a central role in Islamic fiscal policy and operations. At the same time, it does not preclude the use of modern tools and techniques in raising the state re...

Discharging Accountability: A Case Study of a Zakat Institution in Malaysia

Norfaiezah Sawandi · Norazita Marina Abdul Aziz · Ram Al Jafri Saad ·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2019

The objective of the study is to explore and examine the forms and means employed by one zakat institution in Malaysia in discharging its accountability to the stakeholders. Case study approach was used in the study involving the use of bot...

Assessing the economic and social impacts of fiscal policies: Evidence from recent Malaysian tax adjustments

Saeed Solaymani ·Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: H2, H24, H25, O15

This study is the first attempt to analyze the effectiveness of recent two major tax policies, the reductions in personal and corporate income taxes and a rise in indirect tax and their combine, under both balanced and unbalanced budget con...

Economic Ripple Effect: The Effect of Public Transfer Payment Policy in Malaysia

Muhammad Adli Amirullah · Mario Arturo Ruiz Estrada · Mohamed Aslam ·Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics ·2020 ·JEL: C00, E60, H53

This article models the interconnection between the public transfer payment policy in Malaysia and the overall Malaysian economy using an inter-linkage coordinate space. This space is represented graphically, with the public transfer paymen...

Operating Performance Analysis and Goods Service Tax Implementation in Malaysia

Sitraselvi Chandren · Ayoib Che Ahmad · Santhirasegaran Nadarajan ·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018

The implementation of Goods Service Tax (GST) in business processes requires firm to revise their business policies and practices particularly on price setting and cash flow operation that may possibly influence the operating performance. T...

Performance objectives of public private partnership implementation in Malaysia: perception of key players

Rosnani Mohamad · Suhaiza Ismail · Julia Mohd Said ·Journal of Asia Business Studies ·2018

Purpose The objectives of this present study are twofold. First, it aims to investigate the performance objectives of PPP implementation in Malaysia. Second, it aims to examine the differences in the perceptions of two PPP key players – the...

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