Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between monetary policy, inflation rate, and stock market in Malaysia. The techniques used in this study are Unit Root test, Johansen's Cointegration test, Pairwise Granges Causality test, Multivariate VAR tests, Impulse Response, Varian...

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Main Author: Yeap, Sin Yean
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Published: 2004
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spelling my-uum-etd.14692013-07-24T12:12:04Z Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia 2004 Yeap, Sin Yean Faculty of Economics Faculty of Economics HG Finance The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between monetary policy, inflation rate, and stock market in Malaysia. The techniques used in this study are Unit Root test, Johansen's Cointegration test, Pairwise Granges Causality test, Multivariate VAR tests, Impulse Response, Variance Decomposition and Multivariate Error Correction Model (ECM) tests. Five variables used in this study are exchange rate, lending rate, consumer price, and aggregate money supply. Data will be collected monthly and the data will be divided into two periods. The first period will be from January 1980 until August 1998 representing the period before the government pegged the exchange rate. The second period will start from September 1998 until September 2003 representing the period after the government had pegged the exchange rate. The major findings are : (i) there exist a dynamic interaction between monetary policy, inflation rate and stock market in Malaysia, and (ii) there is a linkage between the variables and stock market before and after the government had pegged the exchange rate. 2004 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/1469/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/1469/1/YEAP_SIN_YEAN.pdf application/pdf eng validuser https://etd.uum.edu.my/1469/2/1.YEAP_SIN_YEAN.pdf application/pdf eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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Yeap, Sin Yean
Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia
description The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between monetary policy, inflation rate, and stock market in Malaysia. The techniques used in this study are Unit Root test, Johansen's Cointegration test, Pairwise Granges Causality test, Multivariate VAR tests, Impulse Response, Variance Decomposition and Multivariate Error Correction Model (ECM) tests. Five variables used in this study are exchange rate, lending rate, consumer price, and aggregate money supply. Data will be collected monthly and the data will be divided into two periods. The first period will be from January 1980 until August 1998 representing the period before the government pegged the exchange rate. The second period will start from September 1998 until September 2003 representing the period after the government had pegged the exchange rate. The major findings are : (i) there exist a dynamic interaction between monetary policy, inflation rate and stock market in Malaysia, and (ii) there is a linkage between the variables and stock market before and after the government had pegged the exchange rate.
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author Yeap, Sin Yean
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title Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia
title_short Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia
title_full Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia
title_fullStr Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Monetary Policy, Inflation Rate, and Stock Market in Malaysia
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url https://etd.uum.edu.my/1469/1/YEAP_SIN_YEAN.pdf
https://etd.uum.edu.my/1469/2/1.YEAP_SIN_YEAN.pdf
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