This study aims to examine the predictive ability of share buybacks from an earnings perspective. Panel data regression analysis is conducted to determine the impact of share repurchases on future firm performance using Malaysian publicly listed companies data over 2000-2020. This study is significant because of the importance of shareContinue Reading
Objektif kajian adalah untuk menilai impak pelaksanaan liberalisasi kawalan kuota import komoditi agromakanan ke atas indikator ekonomi terutama penawaran, harga pasaran dan pengeksportan. Metodologi kajian ini melibatkan pengumpulan data siri masa secara bulanan sebelum dan selepas pelaksanaan liberalisasi. Ia menggunakan data Malaysia dari Januari 2013 hingga Disember 2018 di manaContinue Reading
Kajian ini cuba menjawab persoalan adakah polisi berasaskan etnik yang diperkenalkan oleh Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) berkesan dalam mencapai objektif dan adakah ianya masih relevan. Kajian ini mengadaptasi metodologi Hirschman (1983) menggunakan data banci tahun 2010. Dapatan kajian mencadangkan bahawa DEB telah berjaya menghapuskan kesan etnik sebagai faktor yang membezakanContinue Reading
Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk menganalisis tempoh masa yang diambil oleh seseorang untuk bekerja dalam sektor awam. Secara spesifiknya, kajian ini dijalankan adalah untuk mengkaji perbezaan antara mereka yang mempunyai tingkat pendidikan minimum yang diperlukan oleh sesuatu pekerjaan dengan mereka yang mempunyai tingkat pendidikan yang lebih tinggi berbanding dengan tingkatContinue Reading
The rise of the Gig Economy has created new concerns about inequality in rapidly digitising Asian economies. Whilst the emergence of the “on-demand economy” creates new opportunities for the youths and low-income groups, this has also created new policy challenges. As many use unofficial digital platforms and/or operate as unregisteredContinue Reading
The study aims to investigate consumers’ willingness to pay for the development of renewable energy to encourage renewable energy consumption in the long run. This study further identifies the factors that influence consumers’ willingness to pay for renewable energy. A face-to-face questionnaire, with a contingent valuation method was administered toContinue Reading
This study evaluates the effect of high-technology trade on economic growth in an emerging economy, using quarterly data from 1990 until 2018. The role of innovation in moderating the high technology trade – economic growth nexus also emphasize. The empirical findings based on the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach revealContinue Reading
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the consumption function among households in Kelantan Malaysia based on the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH). This study used secondary data obtained from annual reports, as well as from published and non-published data between 2000 and 2016. The ARDL bound testing approach toContinue Reading
This paper examines the univariate relationship between global linkages of the Malaysian manufacturing sector in the form of export intensity and intra-industry trade, respectively, on inter-industry concentration. The recently developed fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) panel cointegration techniques are employed. The estimated long-runContinue Reading
The middle-class is reported to experience the “middle-class squeeze”, where they are facing a declining relative income and simultaneously rising costs of living particularly with regards to housing, education and health care. Besides, the middle-class is also reported to face “the middle-class trap”, where on the one hand, they areContinue Reading
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