Purpose: This paper aims to examine the non-linear impact of inflation on financial development, and the moderating role of GDP in the relationship between inflation and financial development in a panel of 125 countries. Design/methodology/approach: It employs the dynamic common correlated...

This paper examines the factors affecting the growth of e-banking in Malaysia from the consumers’ perspective. A Likert scale questionnaire survey is applied. The results show that there are seven factors influencing the growth of e-banking—convenience of usage (including Internet...

This paper looks at bound test approach for cointegration analysis, to verify the stability of Singaporean real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), to construct the Monetary Conditions Index (MCI) over the quarterly period 1981:1-2004:4. The bounds test confirms a long-run equilibrium relationship...

Investors react adversely to the announcements of rights offers in Hong Kong and the abnormal return of rights offers on the announcement day is −12.10%. After taking price discounts, underwriting fees and abnormal returns into consideration, the total direct and indirect costs of the seasoned...

Financial liberalization might be expected to have caused onetime shifts in money velocity or changes in the responsiveness of money demand to changes in incomes and interest rates. This study tends to examine the impact of financial liberalization on the money growth variability and money...

This paper employs the bounds testing approach for cointegration analysis (Pesaran et al., 2001) to examine the impact of interest rate and exchange rate on output, and then uses the estimated weights to construct Monetary Conditions Index (MCI) for Singapore over the quarterly period 1981-2004....

This paper constructs the augmented monetary conditions index (AMCI) over 1982:1-2004:4 using UECM and bounds test approach for the Philippines data. Results reveal evidence of cointegration between the real GDP and its determinants, namely short-term interest rate, exchange rate and claims on...

The study aims to examine the robustness of different PPP models by applying different types of econometric techniques in ASEAN-Five economies from 1983:M1 to 2002:M9. Two versions of PPP theory have been estimated within Engle-Granger bivariate cointegration test, Johansen- Juselius...

This paper constructs the Augmented Monetary Conditions Index (AMCI) from 1982:1 to 2004:4 using Unrestricted Error Correction Model (UECM) and bounds test approach for the Philippines data. The results reveal evidence of cointegration between the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and its...

This paper aims to examine whether inflation targeting fits in Malaysia. The relationship between CPI, money supply (M1), money market rate, and exchange rate of the Malaysian economies from 1976:M1 to 2007:M12 is tested, considering the major transmission mechanism channels in the conduct of...