The purpose of this paper is to investigate the evolution of market concentration and competition in Malaysian dual banking industry for the period of 1997-2013. This study utilized structural approach to investigate changes in the market structure particularly the level of concentration and competition that contributed by several structural changesContinue Reading
The present study examines the responses of sectoral gross domestic product to different types of government revenue and total government expenditure. The findings are useful to determine the effectiveness of fiscal policy in different economic sectors, which were ignored by previous studies. This study involves six-variable vector autoregressions with CholeskyContinue Reading
The increasing trend of crime rate would detriment the economic growth of a country. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the macroeconomic determinants that affect crime rate in Malaysia. This study covers yearly data from 1970 to 2013. To achieve the objective of this study, we useContinue Reading
As with most of the world economy, the 2008/09 global financial crisis has brought massive impacts on Southeast Asian economies. The debt/GDP ratios in most economies rose significantly, thus putting the spotlight again on fiscal sustainability. This article aims to distinguish the reaction of the primary balance/GDP to changes inContinue Reading
The aim of this study is to estimate the optimal debt threshold of Real Estate Investment Trusts in Malaysia (MREITs). This study uses continuous sequential threshold regression approach adopted from Bai and Perron (1998; 2003) and Perron (2006) methodologies and collaborates the threshold regression by Hansen (2001; 2015) to estimateContinue Reading
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 on disaggregated level of exports such as export of goods and manufactured sectors.Continue Reading
The purpose of the present paper is to examine income convergence in Malaysia by applying the nonlinear unit root test presented by Kapetanios et al. (KSS 2003) and extended by Chong et al. (CHLL 2008) to permit the test of long-run convergence and catching-up hypotheses. The KSS-CHLL nonlinear unit rootContinue Reading
The present study uses the Gravity type approach for panel data spanning from 1998 to 2009 to identify demand and supply factors in the Malaysian tourism industry. The findings reveal that the market size for both destination and source countries, country that share common border and common language with MalaysiaContinue Reading
In 2009, Malaysia was ranked as the world’s 11th higher education exporter. However, only 2% of international students enrolled in Malaysia for the same year. In addressing the problem, this research proposes an analysis of Malaysia’s higher education demand from a macro perspective. This is important in getting a holisticContinue Reading
The exponential spread of the coronavirus in Malaysia has caused a significant majority of the economic activities to cease, resulting in poor stock market performance. This pandemic situation has in turn prompted the government to introduce policies to restart and improve economic activity and stock market performance. Hence, does theContinue Reading
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