Outward foreign direct investment, financial development and economic growth : Malaysia / Nurul Farah Izzati Sulaiman

This paper aim to examine the relationship between economic growth, outward foreign direct investment and financial development in Malaysia. By using the data set range from 1980 to 2018, where the dependent variable is economic growth while the independent variables are outward FDI and FD. The r...

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Main Author: Sulaiman, Nurul Farah Izzati
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39513/1/39513.pdf
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/39513/
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Summary:This paper aim to examine the relationship between economic growth, outward foreign direct investment and financial development in Malaysia. By using the data set range from 1980 to 2018, where the dependent variable is economic growth while the independent variables are outward FDI and FD. The results of long-run coefficient indicates there is a positive relationship between GDP and both of the independent variables (outward FDI and FD). Moreover, the main results obtained from vector error-correction model (VECM) suggest there is relationship between outward FDI and financial development in long-run and short run and have bi-directional causation between the variables.