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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-10-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-11-2003
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-04-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-01-2006
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
Date: 2018
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2004
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 16-05-2008
DOI: 10.1108/01443580810870146
Abstract: This paper aims to examine the influence of exchange rate variability on the demand for Malaysia's top five electrical exports as classified by Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) product groups. The autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) modelling approach to co‐integration is employed in order to estimate the influence of exchange rate variability on export demand. The empirical results indicate that foreign income and prices are important determinants of export demand for all of the five electrical exports, in both the long run and the short run, over the s le period 1990‐2001. More interestingly, this paper supports the view that exchange rate variability has an adverse effect on Malaysia's electrical exports. One limitation of the study is the appropriateness of the ARDL modelling approach to examine the influence of exchange rate variability (which is stationary, I (0)) on trade behaviour such as export demand behaviour. This paper is important to policymakers for the design of both exchange rate and trade policies in order to promote export growth, which could lead to Malaysia's transition towards high‐technology industrialisation. This paper examines the influence of exchange rate variability on the demand for Malaysia's top five electrical exports as classified by SITC product groups, information which is not available in the existing literature.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2010
DOI: 10.5367/TE.2010.0017
Abstract: Tourism has been identified as one of the key growth sectors in Singapore's economy. Given that the city state has been recognized as one of the most open economies in the world, this study explores the causality relationships between tourism and openness to trade, using aggregated variables – total visitor arrivals and data on trade components (merchandise and services) – and their respective disaggregated data by country for each of Singapore's top five trading partners – Malaysia, China, the USA, Japan and South Korea. The study shows bidirectional causality between international visitor arrivals in Singapore and openness to merchandise trade. However, the causality pattern varies among Singapore's major trading partners if country-level data are used. The overall findings imply that further trade liberalization with Singapore's major trading partners may not necessarily encourage visitor arrivals from those countries, but can be seen as an important catalyst for the growth and development of the tourism sector. Conversely, an increase in tourism activities could also encourage the host country to open itself to more international trade. Furthermore, it is imperative to liberalize the service sector in Singapore to facilitate greater openness in merchandise trade, given that a large proportion of services constitutes the goods trade.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2009
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 06-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2002
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2007
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 08-01-2018
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of institutional quality on the export-led growth (ELG) with global evidence of a panel of 119 countries. The research framework looks at the role of exports in promoting growth via. good institutional quality. The methods of testing are panel data approach of causality, and fixed and random effects models. Empirical results show that good Institutional quality mediates the ELG relationship in general, and middle income group in specific. The legal institutional quality has significant positive impact, whereas political and economic institutional quality have significant negative impact on ELG for all s led countries. The Kuncic’s (2014) institutional quality data are annually available between 1990 and 2010. Therefore, time series analysis for in idual country is bias with 21 observations. And, this study ignores other potential variables such as capital, labor, real exchange rate, and so on, may possibly contribute to omitted-variables bias. Policymakers may well utilize institutional quality reforms either in terms of improving existing institutional quality or enhancing “second-best” institutions as a policy instrument to reap success from export-oriented growth strategies. Existing studies on ELG have ignored institutional quality as a relevant variable. It looks at the three institutional quality indicators, namely political, economic, and legal in ELG framework.
Publisher: Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia
Date: 2018
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 02-08-2011
DOI: 10.1108/01443581111152427
Abstract: This paper aims to examine both the cointegrating and causal relationships among inward FDI and the host country's employment in manufacturing and services sectors. This paper applies autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) framework to test the cointegration and causality patterns using Singapore as a case. Apart from the presence of a unique long‐run relationship, the findings also show evidence of long‐run causality, running from employment in manufacturing and services to FDI inflows, and from FDI inflows and services employment to manufacturing employment. Furthermore, there is evidence of short‐run causality showing strong FDI‐employment and employment linkages, predominantly from the manufacturing to services. One likely area of future research is to extend this paper by using disaggregated data, e.g. FDI inflows by sector (manufacturing and services), and employment by the respective sectors. Manufacturing and services have been regarded as the “twin engines” of growth for the Singapore economy. As the economy is moving up the value chain from downstream to upstream activities, a significant proportion of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been attracted to the manufacturing and services sectors. The present study provides useful policy implications towards promoting foreign investment in emerging areas of and manpower development in both sectors of the economy. This paper explores the possible interactions between FDI inflows and employment in manufacturing and services sectors as well as the employment linkages between manufacturing and services in Singapore.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-02-2006
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2008
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-02-2015
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 07-02-2017
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-10-2004
Publisher: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)
Date: 17-08-2021
DOI: 10.51200/LBIBF.V19I1.2726
Abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the possible next wave(s) of Covid-19 for 209 countries. The data are total confirmed cases of Covid-19 for the periods spanning between 31 December 2019 and 5 October 2020. The results of unit root tests with a breakpoint suggest 34% (71 countries) of the countries worldwide are transitory (stationary). That is, the shocks such as lockdown have inappropriate effects on the cases of Covid-19. Their next wave of Covid-19 is determining. A 44% (91 countries) of the total has their total confirmed cases of Covid-19 permanent (a unit root), indicating that the next wave is unlikely after the shocks. Other countries are inconclusive. Different continents deliver different findings. This study is relevant to policymakers in both fiscal and monetary policies, as well as international business and finance.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 21-06-2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2003
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 06-11-2007
DOI: 10.1108/01443580710830952
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the money demand function for five Southeast Asian countries, viz. Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, and Indonesia. The ARDL modeling approach is employed because of its ability to incorporate both I(0) and I(1) regressors. The results reveal that real M2 aggregate, real expenditure components, exchange rate, and inflation rate are cointegrated for Malaysia, the Philippines, and Singapore. The statistical significance of real income components suggests the bias of using single real income variable in money demand (M2 aggregate) specification of both short‐ and long‐run. The CUSUM and CUSUMSQ tests show that the estimated parameters are stable for the five Southeast Asian economies, except for Indonesia which is based on short‐run specification. These findings are important for policy makers in formulating monetary policy. Besides conventional determinants of money demand such as exchange rate and interest rate variables, this study considers the major components of final expenditure (GDP) – final consumption expenditures (private and government sectors), expenditures on investment goods, and exports as scale variables.
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 12-2009
DOI: 10.5367/000000009789955206
Abstract: This study contributes to the existing literature by examining whether the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) health scares had a permanent or transitory effect on tourist arrivals in a transition economy – Cambodia. The findings, which are based on unit root tests with an unknown level shift proposed by Lanne et al (2002) and Saikkonen and Lütkepohl (2002), show that visitor arrivals from Cambodia's major source markets are stationary. This implies that the SARS crisis had a transitory effect on Cambodia.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2011
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 2004
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2003
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 03-2005
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