The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir

Inflation is one of the famous macroeconomic problems that always got intention globally. Generally, inflation refers to the continue increasing in general price of goods and services in a certain period of time that can cause the declining in purchasing power of consumer. In fact, the world has rec...

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Main Author: Hakim Hidzir, Muhammad Aqmal
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spelling my-uitm-ir.1000832024-09-25T09:42:41Z The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir 2018-12 Hakim Hidzir, Muhammad Aqmal Money and prices. Inflation. Deflation. Purchasing power Inflation is one of the famous macroeconomic problems that always got intention globally. Generally, inflation refers to the continue increasing in general price of goods and services in a certain period of time that can cause the declining in purchasing power of consumer. In fact, the world has recorded that the Republic of Venezuela has the highest inflation rate ever. Moreover, the economists state that the Venezuela's inflation not only reached normal inflation rate, but had turned into a hyperinflation level. Since the arising of this issue, the study intends to make a further investigate on determinants that affecting the inflation in Venezuela country. This research analyze the inflation rate as the dependent variable, meanwhile the independent variables are the crude oil price, unemployment rate, money supply, exchange rate, gross domestic product (GDP), and government expenditure. Quantitative method and the econometric model are chosen to examine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. With the 37 years observation of sample size from year 1978 to year 2014, the data had run by using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. All of this time series data are collected from the World Bank Data website. It founds that there are two relationships exist which are the positive and negative relationship of independent variables towards the inflation rate. Based on result, money supply and government expenditure show the positive relationship meanwhile for crude oil price, unemployment rate, exchange rate and gross domestic product show then opposite relationship towards the inflation rate. 2018-12 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100083/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100083/2/100083.pdf text en public degree Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor Faculty of Business and Management Hamzah, Nor Haliza Hashim, Saniah
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Hamzah, Nor Haliza
Hashim, Saniah
topic Money and prices
Inflation
Deflation
Purchasing power
spellingShingle Money and prices
Inflation
Deflation
Purchasing power
Hakim Hidzir, Muhammad Aqmal
The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir
description Inflation is one of the famous macroeconomic problems that always got intention globally. Generally, inflation refers to the continue increasing in general price of goods and services in a certain period of time that can cause the declining in purchasing power of consumer. In fact, the world has recorded that the Republic of Venezuela has the highest inflation rate ever. Moreover, the economists state that the Venezuela's inflation not only reached normal inflation rate, but had turned into a hyperinflation level. Since the arising of this issue, the study intends to make a further investigate on determinants that affecting the inflation in Venezuela country. This research analyze the inflation rate as the dependent variable, meanwhile the independent variables are the crude oil price, unemployment rate, money supply, exchange rate, gross domestic product (GDP), and government expenditure. Quantitative method and the econometric model are chosen to examine the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. With the 37 years observation of sample size from year 1978 to year 2014, the data had run by using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) method. All of this time series data are collected from the World Bank Data website. It founds that there are two relationships exist which are the positive and negative relationship of independent variables towards the inflation rate. Based on result, money supply and government expenditure show the positive relationship meanwhile for crude oil price, unemployment rate, exchange rate and gross domestic product show then opposite relationship towards the inflation rate.
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title The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir
title_short The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir
title_full The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir
title_fullStr The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir
title_full_unstemmed The determinants of inflation in Venezuela / Muhammad Aqmal Hakim Hidzir
title_sort determinants of inflation in venezuela / muhammad aqmal hakim hidzir
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Johor
granting_department Faculty of Business and Management
publishDate 2018
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/100083/2/100083.pdf
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