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MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA

This paper is about the macroeconomic determinants of foreign direct investment inflows in Malaysia. FDI inflows are always fluctuating in Malaysia due to the stability of the macroeconomy. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to explore the consequences of the selected macroeconomic determinan...

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Main Author: Kelly, Tan Zia Yee
Format: Final Year Project Report
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2023
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HF Commerce
Online Access:http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43762/5/Kelly%20ft.pdf
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spelling my.unimas.ir.437622024-06-12T01:54:37Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43762/ MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA Kelly, Tan Zia Yee HF Commerce This paper is about the macroeconomic determinants of foreign direct investment inflows in Malaysia. FDI inflows are always fluctuating in Malaysia due to the stability of the macroeconomy. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to explore the consequences of the selected macroeconomic determinants (market size, inflation and trade openness) on FDI inflows. Besides, three hypotheses have been developed based on the empirical findings of previous works of literature. To conduct this research, the secondary data for Malaysia will be collected for 48 years starting from 1974 to 2021 as a sample dataset. Moreover, several time-series statistical analyses will be conducted. According to the empirical findings resulting from the OLS regression analysis, market size and trade openness provide significant and positive consequences on FDI inflows in Malaysia, while inflation provides a negative, but insignificant consequence on FDI inflows in Malaysia. Apart from that, this research brings a few implications such as enhancing macroeconomic policies, producing new things etc. Lastly, several limitations are discovered in this research and several recommendations are provided to address the respective limitations in further research. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2023 Final Year Project Report NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43762/5/Kelly%20ft.pdf Kelly, Tan Zia Yee (2023) MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA. [Final Year Project Report] (Unpublished)
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MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA
description This paper is about the macroeconomic determinants of foreign direct investment inflows in Malaysia. FDI inflows are always fluctuating in Malaysia due to the stability of the macroeconomy. Therefore, the main goal of this paper is to explore the consequences of the selected macroeconomic determinants (market size, inflation and trade openness) on FDI inflows. Besides, three hypotheses have been developed based on the empirical findings of previous works of literature. To conduct this research, the secondary data for Malaysia will be collected for 48 years starting from 1974 to 2021 as a sample dataset. Moreover, several time-series statistical analyses will be conducted. According to the empirical findings resulting from the OLS regression analysis, market size and trade openness provide significant and positive consequences on FDI inflows in Malaysia, while inflation provides a negative, but insignificant consequence on FDI inflows in Malaysia. Apart from that, this research brings a few implications such as enhancing macroeconomic policies, producing new things etc. Lastly, several limitations are discovered in this research and several recommendations are provided to address the respective limitations in further research.
format Final Year Project Report
author Kelly, Tan Zia Yee
author_facet Kelly, Tan Zia Yee
author_sort Kelly, Tan Zia Yee
title MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA
title_short MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA
title_full MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA
title_fullStr MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA
title_full_unstemmed MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN MALAYSIA
title_sort macroeconomic determinants of foreign direct investment inflows in malaysia
publisher Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
publishDate 2023
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43762/5/Kelly%20ft.pdf
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