Imtiaz Sifat · Azhar Mohamad ·Journal of Economic Studies ·2020 ·JEL: D43, D47, D53
Despite regulatory claims of straitening volatility and preventing crashes, evidences on circuit breakers’ ability to achieve so are nonconclusive. While previous scholars studies general performances of circuit breakers, the authors examin...
Tai-Hock Kuek · Chin-Hong Puah · M. Affendy Arip ·Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice ·2020 ·JEL: C11, C32, C58, E44, G01
This study attempts to develop a financial vulnerability indicator serving as a composite indicator for the state of financial vulnerability. The indicator was constructed from 10 variables of macroeconomic, financial and property market by...
Xuefeng Qian · Kalsoom Rafi Que · Yingna Wu ·China and World Economy ·2020 ·JEL: F14, F16, J23, O10
As a large trading nation, China competes with importing countries’ domestic and thirdcountry markets but also creates growth opportunities for exporters. Most studies on China trade shocks or “China shocks” focuse on the impacts of import...
Christopher Gan · Rafiatul Adlin Hj Mohd Ruslan · Baiding Hu · Nguyen Thi Thieu Quang ·International Journal of Business and Economics ·2020 ·JEL: L26; O53
This study investigates the relationship between access to microcredit and SMEs’ performance. Using survey data on SME’s owners/managers in Terengganu, Malaysia in 2016, the study investigates how access to microcredit affects SME sales and...
Mujeeb Saif Mohsen Al-Absy · Ku Nor Izah Ku Ismail · Sitraselvi Chandren · Shehabaddin Abdullah A. Al-Dubai ·Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business ·2020 ·JEL: M40, M41, M42, M48
This paper investigates the effect of the involvement of the board chairman in the audit committee (AC) on earnings management (EM). It examines Bursa Malaysia-listed companies with the lowest positive earnings for the years 2013 to 2015. T...
Mansor H. Ibrahim ·Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance ·2020 ·JEL: C33; G21; G32
This paper examines the performance of Malaysia’s banking sector and its relationship to the presence of Islamic banking in the country. More specifically, by controlling for the theoretically relevant determinants of bank performance we co...
Adam Abdullah ·Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics ·2020 ·JEL: E12, E31, E42, E52
The purpose of this study is to contrast two recent monetary reform proposals involving the neo-chartalist Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the metallist Islamic Monetary Theory of Value (IMTV). Money is the common denominator for all econo...
Khanifah Khanifah · Pancawati Hardiningsih · Asri Darmaryantiko · Iryantika Iryantik · Udin Udin ·Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business ·2020 ·JEL: E44, M14, Q56
A series of corporate failures and financial crises have raised attention to organizational governance issues, especially for financial institutions. In the banking system, corporate governance further plays a unique role because of the uni...
Pancawati Hardiningsih · Indira Januarti · Etna Nur Afri Yuyetta · Ceacilia Srimindarti · Udin Udin ·International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy ·2020 ·JEL: E44, M14, Q56
This study aims to analyze the effect of sustainability information disclosure on financial and market performance. Using purposive sampling, this study obtains 21 mining sector companies in Indonesia and 18 companies in Malaysia. Regressio...
Azadeh Hadian · Cahit Adaoglu ·Journal of Asian Economics ·2020 ·JEL: F30, G32
This study examines the value effects of financial and operational hedging in a managed floating exchange rate regime with strict limitations on the trading of Malaysian Ringgit for a sample of 109 Malaysian multinationals from 2004–2018. U...
Shahanif Hasan · Aza Azlina Md. Kassim · Mohamad Ali Abdul Hamid ·International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues ·2020 ·JEL: G3, M42
In recent decades, there has been a noticeable increase in the practice of earnings management (EM) as a proxy for financial reporting, especially real activities, with effect on the quality of financial statements. The role of the audit co...
Chai-Thing Tan · Azali Mohamed · Muzafar Shah Habibullah · Lee Chin ·South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance ·2020 ·JEL: E52, E58, E62, C01
This article analyses the impact of monetary and fiscal policies on economic growth in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand from 1980:Q1 to 2017:Q1. Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach is employed to determine the long-run relationsh...
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...
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...
Fathin Faizah Said · Sharifah Nur Ainn Syed Roslan · Mohd Azlan Shah Zaidi · Mohd Ridzwan Yaakub ·Economies ·2021
A ban on palm oil imports by the European Union has become a problematic issue, especially for palm oil producers’ countries. Oil palm has been widely used in many sub-sectors, and any changes in the production side may affect many sectors...