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Stock market and aggregate consumption asymmetry: evidence from Malaysia
Ibrahim, Mansor H.; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - In: Studies in Economics and Finance 27 (2010) March, pp. 19-29
Malaysia with the focus on whether there is asymmetry in the long-run relation of the two variables. Design …, while changes in share prices exert short-run causal influences on Malaysia's private consumption, evidence is found for the … and, accordingly, supports the existence of especially negative wealth effect for Malaysia. Research limitations …
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Evaluating a credit guarantee agency in a developing economy: a non-parametric approach
Ong, Hway-Boon; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah; Radam, Alias; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 30 (2003) January, pp. 143-152
) due to the high credit risk involved. Therefore, Credit Guarantee Corporation (Malaysia) Limited (CGC) was set up to … assist SMEs to secure loans from financial institutions in Malaysia. Being the sole issuer of credit guarantees to SMEs, the …
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Price convergence and market integration: evidence from Malaysia
Lee, Chin; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The purpose of this study is to assess the markets integration within Malaysia by examine the price convergence across … Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. Disaggregate monthly price data for various types of goods or services in Peninsular … Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak were utilized. Levin and Lin (1993) panel unit root test was employed to test whether the price of …
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Is China compatible with ASEAN-5? A gradual cointegration analysis
Ong, Hway-Boon; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) 3, pp. 356-367
Purpose – The purpose of this paper to examine if there is continuous macroeconomic compatibility between ASEAN-5 and China. Thus, in addition to the typical VECM test of the long run macroeconomic cointegration test, this paper examines the existence of an ongoing cointegration analysis....
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Economic freedom and bank efficiency: does ownership and origins matter?
Sufian, Fadzlan; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - In: Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 22 (2014), pp. 174-207
Purpose – The paper aims to explore the impact of economic freedom on the efficiency of the Malaysian banking sector. Design/methodology/approach - The analysis is confined into two stages. In the first stage, the bias-corrected data envelopment analysis method is used to compute the...
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Is money neutral in stock market? The case of Malaysia
Puah, Chin-Hong; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah; Liew, Venus … - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 1852-1861
The objective of this study is to examine whether the notion of monetary neutrality holds in Malaysian stock market. Our findings indicate that there is considerable evidence against the long-run neutrality (LRN) of money in Malaysian stock market. The important implication is that the stock...
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Developments in the efficiency of the Malaysian banking sector: the impacts of financial disruptions and exchange rate regimes
Sufian, Fadzlan; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - In: Progress in Development Studies 12 (2012) 1, pp. 19-46
In the mid-1990s, East Asian countries have experienced severe financial crisis that were followed by deep economic downturns. A variety of methodologies have been used to explain the Asian financial crisis. However, the impact of the Asian financial crisis of 1997 on the efficiency of the...
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Financial sector consolidation and competition in Malaysia: An application of the Panzar-Rosse method
Sufian, Fadzlan; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - In: Journal of Economic Studies 40 (2013) 3, pp. 390-410
Purpose – The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of consolidation on Malaysian banking sector's market structure and competition. Design/methodology/approach – The paper employs the Panzar-Rosse (P-R) method to compute the H-statistics of the Malaysian banking sector....
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Crime and economic conditions in Malaysia
Habibullah, Muzafar Shah; Baharom, A.H. - In: International Journal of Social Economics 36 (2009) October, pp. 1071-1081
activities in Malaysia for the period 1973-2003. Design/methodology/approach – The autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing … crimefighting policies that are formulated. Originality/value – An economic viewpoint of criminal activities in Malaysia. …
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The information content of alternative monetary aggregates : simple-sum versus divisia money in selected Asian countries
Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - In: The Philippine review of economics and business : a … 35 (1998) 2, pp. 140-176
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