C. S. Tan · M. A. Hassali · C. F. Neoh · F. Saleem · Rob Horne ·Value in Health Regional Issues ·2018
Background Low rate of adherence was found strongly associated with patients’ beliefs across the studies about chronic diseases with hypertension. A crucial move is needed to bridge the gap between appropriate assessment tools and local hyp...
Sallahuddin Hassan ·International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy ·2018 ·JEL: C53; O16; Q41
This study is aimed at exploring the impact of energy consumption, private investment, financial development and economic growth on carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions in Malaysia employing the autoregressive distributed lags model for the peri...
H. Vijith, L. W. Seling · D. Dodge-Wan ·Environment, Development and Sustainability ·2018
Soil loss has been quantified and land area categorized for soil erosion vulnerability in a partially forested subwatershed of the Baram River basin (Sarawak, Malaysia) using Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, which considers climatic an...
Ali Saleh Alarussi · Sami Mohammed Alhaderi ·Managerial Auditing Journal ·2018
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors affecting profitability in Malaysian-listed companies. It has been argued that profitability is the main pillar for any company to survive in the long run. Although profitability i...
Habib Ahmed · Ili Rahilah Ibrahim ·Journal of Consumer Policy ·2018
This paper examines the status of the legal and regulatory framework for consumer protection in Malaysia, an emerging economy. Using leximetrics and notions of incomplete law, the paper explores the financial consumer protection regime in t...
Caglar Ozden · Mauro Testaverde · Mathis Wagner ·The World Bank Economic Review ·2018 ·JEL: F22; K42
The perception that immigration fuels crime is an important source of anti-immigrant sentiment. Using Malaysian data for 2003-10, this paper provides estimates of the overall impact of economic immigration on crime, and evidence on differen...
Saeed Solaymani ·Environment, Development and Sustainability ·2018
This study attempts to analyze the short- and long-run impacts of the probable change in rainfall and temperature simultaneously on food availability and access to food issues, as the two dimensions of food security, in Malaysia. It uses an...
Sakiru Adebola Solarin · Shawkat Hammoudeh · Muhammad Shahbaz ·Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money ·2018 ·JEL: C58; E42; E43; G01; G21
This paper contributes to the existing empirical literature on savings and Islamic banking systems by comprehensively examining the determinants of Islamic banking deposits in Malaysia. Initially, we examine the factors affecting the deposi...
Chee-Hong Law ·Applied Economics Letters ·2018 ·JEL: F21; F31; F40
Some observations have suggested that international reserves contribute to trilemma policy convergence in emerging countries. Nonetheless, this hypothesis needs more solid empirical evidence to determine its validity. This article tests thi...
Wan Nordin Wan Hussin · Hasan Mohamad Bamahros · Siti Norwahida Shukeri ·Managerial Auditing Journal ·2018
Purpose Motivated by a recent call from DeFond and Zhang (2014) for auditing scholars to use “a richer set of audit firm, auditor office, and individual auditor characteristics to capture competency”, this study aims to extend the related l...
Zaharah binti Yahya · MarianiAriffin · Sabrina Ho Abdullah ·Resources Policy ·2018
The Malaysian State of Selangor has been blessed with an abundant reserve of granite rocks located in the districts of Kuala Langat, Hulu Selangor, Gombak, and Hulu Langat which supply raw materials to develop physical infrastructures inclu...
Sabariah Nordin · Afiruddin Tapa · Hamdan Al-Jaifi ·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018
This study intends to identify the long run relationships between oil price, exchange rates, stock market and interest rate in the context of Malaysia. Weekly data from 1 January 2006 until 22 April 2018 were used. Unit root tests of ADF an...
Caroline Theoharides ·Journal of Human Resources ·2018 ·JEL: F22; I25; O15
I estimate the effect of international migration on the human capital of children in the migrants’ origin country. Using administrative data containing all migrant departures from the Philippines, I exploit variation across provinces in des...
Nur Shuhada Abdul Basir · Chemah Tamby Chik · Sabaianah Bachok · Noradzhar Baba · Rasidah Hamid · Maria Mohd Salleh ·International Journal of Supply Chain Management ·2018
The halal food industry is vital to the world wide muslim consumers to ensure the food they consumed, use and purchase are hygienic, clean and not harmful to health. Muslim is the largest group in Malaysia with 61.3% from total population....
Abu bakar Hamid Danlami · Shri-Dewi Applanaidu · Rabiul Islam ·Environment, Development and Sustainability ·2018
There exists a high global concern in different nations on environmental sustainability especially at the focal stage of increased economic growth and development process due to high level of environmental degradation and pollution. The maj...