Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between exports, imports and economic growth in the case of Malaysia empirically. This study also determined the existence of long-run relationship between exports, imports and economic growth of Malaysia. The time series data us...

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Main Author: Choo, Pei Wei
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Language:English
Published: 2015
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spelling my.ums.eprints.185362018-01-29T15:00:04Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18536/ Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia Choo, Pei Wei HF Commerce The purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between exports, imports and economic growth in the case of Malaysia empirically. This study also determined the existence of long-run relationship between exports, imports and economic growth of Malaysia. The time series data used in this study are the annual data for real gross domestic products (current U. S. dollar), real exports of goods and services (current U. S. dollar) and real imports of goods and services (current U. S. dollar) as a proxy of economic growth, exports and imports respectively. Annual data of GDP deflator is also used to obtain real GDP, real exports and real imports from their nominal data in this study. The period cover is from 1960 to 2013. All nominal data for variables are obtained from the World Bank Data Online. Methods used in this study are co-integration test and Granger causality test. The results show that there is bidirectional causality among exports and economic growth while no causality among imports and economic growth. Long-run relationship exists among exports and economic growth while it did not exist among imports and economic growth. The results did not support the expectations that both exports and imports have causal relationship towards economic growth, hence suggests that there was probably a multiplicity of factors at work. 2015 Academic Exercise NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18536/1/Exports%2C%20imports%20and%20economic%20growth.pdf Choo, Pei Wei (2015) Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia. Universiti Malaysia Sabah. (Unpublished)
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Choo, Pei Wei
Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia
description The purpose of this study is to investigate the causal relationship between exports, imports and economic growth in the case of Malaysia empirically. This study also determined the existence of long-run relationship between exports, imports and economic growth of Malaysia. The time series data used in this study are the annual data for real gross domestic products (current U. S. dollar), real exports of goods and services (current U. S. dollar) and real imports of goods and services (current U. S. dollar) as a proxy of economic growth, exports and imports respectively. Annual data of GDP deflator is also used to obtain real GDP, real exports and real imports from their nominal data in this study. The period cover is from 1960 to 2013. All nominal data for variables are obtained from the World Bank Data Online. Methods used in this study are co-integration test and Granger causality test. The results show that there is bidirectional causality among exports and economic growth while no causality among imports and economic growth. Long-run relationship exists among exports and economic growth while it did not exist among imports and economic growth. The results did not support the expectations that both exports and imports have causal relationship towards economic growth, hence suggests that there was probably a multiplicity of factors at work.
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title Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia
title_short Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia
title_full Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia
title_fullStr Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Exports, imports and economic growth in Malaysia
title_sort exports, imports and economic growth in malaysia
publishDate 2015
url https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18536/1/Exports%2C%20imports%20and%20economic%20growth.pdf
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