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Labor Productivity and Inter-Sectoral Reallocation of Labor in Singapore (1965-2002)

Akkemik, K. Ali - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the impact of the shifts of labor across sectors on aggregate productivity growth through a decomposition of aggregate productivity growth in Singapore over the period 1965-2002. The static shift-share analysis is utilized to for this purpose. The results show that the...

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The Australian black coal industry

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 9 July 1997 the Treasurer referred the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry to the Commission for inquiry and report within 12 months. The Commission is to identify ways of improving the international competitiveness of the Australian black coal industry which...

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Exchange Rate – Relative Price Relationship: Nonlinear Evidence from Malaysia

Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Lim, Kian-Ping; Lau, Evan; … - EconWPA - 2003

misalignment of the Ringgit currency and thereby deducing effective policy actions. Second, the effort of Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM … complicated monetary exchange models may do so comfortably, at least in the text of Malaysia. Nonetheless, such attempt should be …

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Exchange Rate – Relative Price Relationship: Nonlinear Evidence from Malaysia

Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Lim, Kian-Ping; Lau, Evan; … - EconWPA - 2003

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Weak-form Efficient Market Hypothesis, Behavioural Finance and Episodic Transient Dependencies: The Case of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange

Lim, Kian-Ping; Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Wong, Hock-Tsen - EconWPA - 2003

This study utilizes the windowed-test procedure of Hinich and Patterson (1995) to examine the data generating process of KLSE CI returns series. Unlike previous studies, the present one relates the evidence to the popular weak-form EMH and behavioural finance, with the hope of offering some...

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Reassessing The Stability of Broad Money Demand in Malaysia

Majid, Muhd-Zulkhibri Abdul - EconWPA - 2004

This paper re-examines the money demand in Malaysia covering the period from 1974 to 2001, a period characterised by … targeting framework in Malaysia seems to be appropriate at least in the 1990s and monetary aggregate continue to be a useful …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997

Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the Americas and East Asia in the past two centuries. Between 1830 and 1945, labor-abundant Britain, the most advanced country, traded heavily with land-abundant countries in the...

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Evaluating the Malaysian Export Processing Zones With special focus on the electronic industry

Furby, Mats - EconWPA - 2005

barriers and other constraining legislations. Malaysia has used them to foster its manufacturing industries, particularly the … positive catalytic effects on the host country. The aim of this essay is to evaluate the EPZs’ impact on Malaysia and see if …) have had on Malaysia and on the electronic industry in particular. This study shows that the EPZ has been a success when it …

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CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EXCHANGE RATES AND STOCK PRICES IN MALAYSIA AND THAILAND DURING THE 1997 CURRENCY CRISIS TURMOIL

Hussain, Huzaimi; Liew, Venus Khim-Sen - EconWPA - 2004

relationship between exchange rate and stock price in Malaysia, whereas a unidirectional causal relationship running from exchange …

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