This paper investigates the impact of monetary policy shocks on a wide range of macroeconomic variables in Malaysia. To achieve this, it uses the Factor Augmented Vector Auto-regression (FAVAR) approach that combines factor analysis and vector auto-regression. The information set consists of 78...

This study re-examines the savings-growth nexus in Malaysia by using the nonparametric methodology. Using quarterly data from March 1991 to September 2006, the result of the Bierens (1997) nonparametric cointegration test shows that savings and economic growth are cointegrated. Moreover, the...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal inflation targets for an appropriate exchange rate policy in 15 major oil exporting countries in Sub-Saharan African (SSA). Design/methodology/approach - Dynamic heterogeneous panel threshold techniques are used via...

The purpose of this study is to re-investigate the savings-growth nexus for the Malaysian economy using bounds testing approach to cointegration and Toda and Yamamoto (1995) and Dolado and Lütkepohl (1996) -- TYDL Granger causality test. This study covered the sample period from 1971:Q1 to...