In this paper, we test whether oil price predicts economic growth for 28 developed and 17 developing countries. We use predictability tests that account for the key features of the data, namely, persistency, endogeneity, and heteroskedasticity. Our analysis considers a large number of countries,...

The paper addresses the empirical question of whether economies that do not systematically target inflation (non-inflation targeters) experience higher exchange rate volatility as compared with inflation targeters in 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) from 1990 to...

The issue of corporate governance has been much discussed lately, particularly since the beginning of the 21st century. Malaysia has been recognised as among the best in Asia to have installed comprehensive governance framework. This paper offers an insight into the amount of afford invested by...

Foreign exchange exposure is defined as the assessment of potential of a firm’s profitability, net cash flow, and market value to change due to unpredictable changes of foreign exchange rates, which can be financially unfavorable to the global firm. This paper discusses the three various types...

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...

This main objective of this paper is to construct the augmented monetary conditions index (hereafter MCI) over the quarterly period 1982:1-2007:4 using bounds test approach for cointegration analysis. Results reveal evidence of cointegration between the real output (LRGDP) and its determinants...

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....