Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman

This research paper examines the factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia by using gross domestic product, import, export, inflation and foreign direct investment as selected variables. As for 38 number of observation which is from 1980 to 2017, this research applied time series analysis method a...

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Main Author: Ab Rahman, Hasrieda
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/90383/2/90383.pdf
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spelling my-uitm-ir.903832024-02-14T06:38:09Z Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman 2018 Ab Rahman, Hasrieda Foreign exchange. Foreign exchange rates This research paper examines the factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia by using gross domestic product, import, export, inflation and foreign direct investment as selected variables. As for 38 number of observation which is from 1980 to 2017, this research applied time series analysis method and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) analyze the data and determine of the affecting of selective variables towards exchange rate. The result from this research indicates that GDP (MYR), import, inflation are positively significant with the exchange rate. Meanwhile, for GDP (USD) and export are negatively significant with the exchange rate. For FDI, the result shows that there is negatively insignificant between FDI and the exchange rate. 2018 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/90383/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/90383/2/90383.pdf text en public Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu Faculty Of Business Management Mohamad, Zuraida
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language English
advisor Mohamad, Zuraida

topic Foreign exchange
Foreign exchange rates
spellingShingle Foreign exchange
Foreign exchange rates
Ab Rahman, Hasrieda
Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman
description This research paper examines the factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia by using gross domestic product, import, export, inflation and foreign direct investment as selected variables. As for 38 number of observation which is from 1980 to 2017, this research applied time series analysis method and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) analyze the data and determine of the affecting of selective variables towards exchange rate. The result from this research indicates that GDP (MYR), import, inflation are positively significant with the exchange rate. Meanwhile, for GDP (USD) and export are negatively significant with the exchange rate. For FDI, the result shows that there is negatively insignificant between FDI and the exchange rate.
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author Ab Rahman, Hasrieda
author_facet Ab Rahman, Hasrieda
author_sort Ab Rahman, Hasrieda
title Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman
title_short Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman
title_full Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman
title_fullStr Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman
title_full_unstemmed Factors affecting exchange rate in Malaysia / Hasrieda Ab Rahman
title_sort factors affecting exchange rate in malaysia / hasrieda ab rahman
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi MARA, Terengganu
granting_department Faculty Of Business Management
publishDate 2018
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/90383/2/90383.pdf
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