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...
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...
The Impact of Islamic Capital Market on Malaysian Real Economy
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...
Trade Openness and Economic Growth: A Study on Asean-6
My-Linh Nguyen
· Toan Ngoc Bui
·Economies ·2021
This paper focuses on examining the nonlinear impact of trade openness (TO) on economic growth (EG) in the Asean-6 countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Philippines, and Vietnam). In order to achieve the set research objectiv...
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...
Reinvestigating the Presence of Environmental Kuznets Curve in Malaysia: The Role of Foreign Direct Investment
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...
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 CO2 Emissions in Malaysia: A New Aspect
Mui-Yin Chin
· Chin-Hong Puah
· Cia-Ling Teo
· Justina Joseph
·International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy ·2018 ·JEL: F18; F43; Q43
In light of the deterioration of environmental quality, this study aims to identify the determinants of CO2 emissions in Malaysia using the autoregressive distributed lag and the decomposition-type threshold methods. This study signifies th...
The Linkage Between Tourism Development and Economic Growth in Malaysia: A Nonlinear Approach
Mohammad Sharif Karimi
·International Economic Journal ·2018 ·JEL: C22; O11
In this study, we examine the nonlinear relationship between international tourism arrival and economic growth of Malaysia by using asymmetric models over the periods 2000:1–2015:4. The results show that the tourism arrival is positively re...
Relations between Innovation and Firm Performance of Manufacturing Firms in Southeast Asian Emerging Markets: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam
Kyunga Na
· Young-Hee Kang
·Journal of Open Innovation: Technology Market and Complexity ·2019
This study aims to investigate the effects of product and process innovations on manufacturing firm performance in Southeast Asian emerging markets. To this end, using a cross-national sample of 2324 manufacturing firms from the World Bank...
The elusive quest for high income status—Malaysia and Thailand in the post-crisis years
Kunal Sen
· Matthew Tyce
·Structural Change and Economic Dynamics ·2019
Both Malaysia and Thailand were seen to be part of the miracle growth economies of East Asia and fast moving into high income status in the early 1990s. Following the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) of the mid 1990s, both countries have observ...
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...
Variations in economic growth across states in Malaysia: an exploratory analysis
Yusniliyana Yusof
· Kaliappa Kalirajan
·Journal of Economic Studies ·2020
The study contributes to the aim of regional development policy in reducing regional disparities, by examining the spatial balance in socioeconomic development across the states of Malaysia based on composite development index (CDI). Beside...
A Conceptual Paper on Impact of Corporate Governance on Operating Performance during Goods Service Tax Implementation in Malaysia
Sitraselvi Chandren
· Ayoib Che Ahmad
· Zaimah Abdullah
·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018
The purpose of this conceptual paper is to address the link between corporate governance and operating performance during and after GST implementation. With the support of agency theory, this paper develops five propositions for the relatio...