Sotheeswari Somasundram · Murali Sambasivan · Ratneswary Rasiah · Tee Pei-Leng ·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: 053; R11; C43; J130; 018
The urban community in Malaysia is facing rapid urbanisation and have been the beneficiary of urban development policies. The key purpose of these policies has been to enhance and improve the well-being of the urban community. However, give...
Chin-Hong Puah · Choi-Meng Leong · Abu Mansor Shazali · Evan Lau ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
BNM has discarded the use of monetary targeting due to the speeding up of financial reforms as the relationship between money and important macroeconomic indicators in Malaysia has weakened. However, the implementation of the interest rate...
Han Hwa Goh · Lee Lee Chong · Ming Ming Lai ·Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies ·2018
This paper examines the nonlinear effects of investor sentiment on asset pricing in Bursa Malaysia. The Fama and French three-factor model is re-augmented within a time-varying Markov regime-switching framework to investigate the three risk...
Rokshana Shirin Asa · Ida Madieha Abdul Ghani Azmi ·Malaysian Journal of Consumer and Family Economics ·2018
The process of halal certification is dependent on the construction of what is deemed to be falling within halal parameters set by the Quran and Sunnah, being the two primary sources of Shari'ah, and supplemented with juristic opinion and i...
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...
Nurul Hizetie Mohamed Nor · Anuar Nawawi · Ahmad Saiful Azlin Puteh Salin ·Pertanika Journal of Social Science and Humanities ·2018
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between audit characteristics and firm investment efficiency level. Audit characteristics have been characterized using audit committee (AC) independence and external auditor choice....
Norlida Hanim Mohd Salleh · Suhaya Samad ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
The Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) is fundamentally established for the purpose of addressing the poverty problem caused by the absence of agricultural land to generate income. Now, through the plan the main problem has been sol...
Kwee-Heng Lee · Raja Noriza Raja Ariffin · Nik Rosnah Wan Abdullah ·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: I 15; I 18; I 19
The emergence of proprietary private hospitals in the 1980s has led to a rise in cost of health care services, variation in care and increase in adverse events. These have contributed to societal concerns prompting the authorities to enforc...
Muhammad Najit Sukemi · Madeline Berma · Shamsul Amri Baharuddin · Faridah Shahdan ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
Affirmative action is a mechanism of conflict resolution in situation of ethnic tensions and socio-economic imbalances. In Malaysia, affirmative action was implemented through a New Economic Policy (NEP) from 1970 to address economic imbala...
Mohd Aqmin Abdul Wahab · Hazrul Izuan Shahiri · Mustazar Mansur · Mohd Azlan Shah Zaidi ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
This paper looks at the causes of increasing cost of living by studying two (2) main factors; frstly, the slow growth in income as compared to infation, and secondly the unproportional increase in standard of living as compared to income. F...
Sonia Kumari Selvarajan · Rossazana Ab-Rahim · Nor-Ghani Md-Nor ·Institutions and Economies ·2018 ·JEL: F13; O16; O53
East Asia Pacific has catapulted to be the most dynamic region in the world as a result of economic liberalisation and sustainable growth. This study seeks to investigate if selected East Asian countries are able to converge in terms of tra...
Mahirah Kamaludin · Kuna Sandran · A.A. Azlina ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2018
Water supply is an expensive investment and it is inevitable that the people have to prepare themselves for a universal hike in water prices in order to secure uninterrupted supply in the future. Inexpensive water prices cause the consumers...
Nur Syuhada Che Ibrahim · Mahirah Kamaludin · Nur Fatihah Shaari ·Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia ·2019
Water service is usually taken for granted as important amenities with required levels needed, however little is known about how much consumers are willing to pay for particular water service levels. Improved water services should be based...
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...
Qian Long Kweh · Norazlin Ahmad · Irene Wei Kiong Ting · Cheng Zhang · Hasahudin Hassan ·Institutions and Economies ·2019 ·JEL: G34; L21
This study investigates the influences of board gender diversity and board independence on firm performance. Ordinary least squares, two-stage least squares and generalised method of moments are employed to test the relationships among boar...