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Is crime cointegrated with income and unemployment?: A panel data analysis on selected European countries

Baharom, A.H.; Habibullah, M.S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper examines the causality between income, unemployment and crime in 11 European countries employing the panel …. Fixed and random effect models are estimated to analyze the impact of income and unemployment on total crime and various … both income and unemployment have meaningful relationship with both aggregated and disaggregated crime. Crime exhibits …

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Defense spending and economic growth in Asian economies: A panel error-correction approach

Habibullah, M.S.; Law, Siong-Hook; Dayang-Afizzah, A.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Hoping to contribute to the existing pool of literature, this paper examines the relationship between military expenditure and economic growth in selected Asian countries for the period 1989 to 2004. Our panel unit root test suggests that real GDP per capita and military expenditures are )1(I...

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Military and Economic Growth in ASEAN-5 Countries

Hirnissa, M.T; Habibullah, M.S.; Baharom, A.H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In this study we employ the bounds testing procedure suggested by Pesaran (2001) and dynamic OLS (DOLS) proposed by Stock and Watson (1993) to test the robustness of the causal effect and long-run relationships between military expenditure and economic growth in ASEAN-5 countries from the year...

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Bordering neighbours: Testing for border effect on Malaysia's northern states and Southern Thailand

Habibullah, M.S.; Dayang-Afizzah, A.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Economists agree that countries that are close together may experience common shocks that affect growth; that a country’s growth rate depends not only on domestic investment but also on the investment of its neighbouring countries. On the negative point, common shock such as wars and political...

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Borders and economic growth: The case of Sabah and her neighbours

Habibullah, M.S.; Dayang-Afizzah, A.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Disparity in income across states and regions in Malaysia continues to be a matter of concern. The purpose of the present study is to investigate empirically the question of whether the economic development of the state of Sabah has an impact on her neighbouring countries or vice versa, the...

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The relationship between trade openness, foreign direct investment and growth: Case of Malaysia

Baharom, A.H.; Habibullah, M.S.; Royfaizal, R. C - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study examines the role of trade openness and foreign direct investment in influencing economic growth in Malaysia during 1975-2005, using the Bounds testing approach suggested by Pesaran et al. (2001). The empirical results demonstrate that trade openness is positively associated and...

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