Income Inequality and Household Debt in Malaysia: Is There an Asymmetric Relationship?
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...
Non-Performing Loans and Macroeconomic Variables in Malaysia: Recent Evidence
Syazwani Kepli
· Yasmin Bani
· Anitha Rosland
· Nisful Laila
·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2021 ·JEL: G21, E44
Financial institutions like commercial banks play important role in the financial system by helping countries to grow and provide capital and platform for investors. However, banks need to be able to generate income in their lending busines...
The Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on International Trade Between Malaysia and China
Ke-Chyn Ng
· Mui-Yin Chin
·International Journal of Economics and Management ·2021 ·JEL: F14, F31
This study examined the impact of exchange rate fluctuations on the level of international trade between Malaysia and China using 45 observations spanning from 2010 quarter 1 to 2021 quarter 1. The Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Het...
The Macroeconomic Fundamentals of the Real Exchange Rate in Malaysia: Some Empirical
J. M. Shukri
· Muzafar Shah Habibullah
· Roseziahazni Abdul Ghani
· M. A. M. Suhaily
·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2021 ·JEL: E43, E52, F31, F32, F33, F41
The aim of this paper is to estimate the equilibrium of exchange rates and identify the roles of macroeconomics fundamentals affecting exchange rates using Malaysian data spanning 1970 to 2019. This study adopts the Autoregressive Distribut...
Factors Affecting Crime Rate in Malaysia Using Autoregressive Distributed Lag Modeling Approach
Nur Farah Zafirah Zulkiflee
· Nurbaizura Borhan
· Mohd Fikri Hadrawi
·Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities ·2022
An increase in the crime rate may jeopardize a country’s development and economic growth. Thus, understanding the relationship between crime and a few determinants is crucial in sustaining the economic growth in Malaysia. The four determina...
The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Force, and External Debt on Economic Growth in Indonesia and Malaysia
Malik Cahyadin
· Tamat Sarmidi
·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
The study aims to estimate the impact of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), labour, and external debt on economic growth in Indonesia and Malaysia over the period 1980-2016. The fndings are expected to serve as a reference for macroeconomic p...
Impact of Innovation on Economic Growth: Evidence from Malaysia
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...
Financial development and economic growth in Malaysia: a nonlinear ARDL application
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...
The Impact of Soybean Futures and Crude Oil Futures on Palm Oil Indexes: Evidence from Bounds Test of Level Relationship and Causality Analysis
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,...
Crude Palm Oil Price Forecasting in Malaysia: An Econometric Approach
Norlin Khalid
· Hakimah Nur Ahmad Hamidi
· Sharmila Thinagar
· Nur Fakhzan Marwan (Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Kedah)
·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
This paper aims to forecast the performance of crude palm oil price (CPO) in Malaysia by comparing several econometric forecasting techniques, namely Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL), Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) an...
Does conflict have negative consequences on economic growth in South Asia?
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...
Does Financial Development Contribute to Fertility Decline in Malaysia?
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...
Export-led Growth Hypothesis in Malaysia: New Evidence Using Disaggregated Data of Exports
Y. Amjad
· N.A.M Naseem
· W.N.W. Azman-Saini
· Tajul Ariffin Masron
· K. Kriskkumar
·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
Export has been considered as main contributor to economic growth in which also known as export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis. The purpose of this study is to identify the export-led growth nexus in Malaysia. Specifically, this study focuses...
The Determinants of Public Education Expenditure in Malaysia
Wong Sing Yun
· Remali Yusoff
·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of the public education expenditure in Malaysia during the period of 35 years from 1982 to 2016. This study intends to address the existing research gaps within Malaysia context that...
Female Labour Force and Child Abuse in Malaysia Using ARDL Approach
Mohd Shahidan Shaari
· Nor Hidayah Harun
· Nor Ermawati Hussain
·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
Economic growth plays an important role in determining the number of female labour force. As economic growth intensifes, the number of female labour force increases simultaneously. However, the rise in the number of female labour force can...