The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf

The objective of this paper is to analyse the long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners, comprising the United States, Singapore, Japan, United Kingdom, and Republic of Korea over the monthly period 1990:1 to...

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Main Author: Md Yusuf, Mazila
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Published: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Jengka 2008
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spelling uitm-101162017-11-16T03:53:45Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10116/ The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf Md Yusuf, Mazila International finance Foreign exchange. Foreign exchange rates The objective of this paper is to analyse the long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners, comprising the United States, Singapore, Japan, United Kingdom, and Republic of Korea over the monthly period 1990:1 to 2002:12. The long-run impact will be analysed using the cointegration analysis and a vector error correction model (VECM) framework which treats all variables in the model as potentially endogenous. In this study, the GARCH model is employed to measure the bilateral exchange rate volatility. Our findings revealed that there is a positive long-run impact of exchange rate volatility on the trade balance of Malaysia with the United States, a negative long-run impact on the trade balance of Malaysia with Singapore and no impact on the trade balance of Malaysia with the other three countries. Universiti Teknologi MARA, Jengka 2008 Article PeerReviewed Md Yusuf, Mazila (2008) The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf. Gading Business and Management Journal, 12 (1). pp. 87-103. ISSN 0128-5599
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topic International finance
Foreign exchange. Foreign exchange rates
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Foreign exchange. Foreign exchange rates
Md Yusuf, Mazila
The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf
description The objective of this paper is to analyse the long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners, comprising the United States, Singapore, Japan, United Kingdom, and Republic of Korea over the monthly period 1990:1 to 2002:12. The long-run impact will be analysed using the cointegration analysis and a vector error correction model (VECM) framework which treats all variables in the model as potentially endogenous. In this study, the GARCH model is employed to measure the bilateral exchange rate volatility. Our findings revealed that there is a positive long-run impact of exchange rate volatility on the trade balance of Malaysia with the United States, a negative long-run impact on the trade balance of Malaysia with Singapore and no impact on the trade balance of Malaysia with the other three countries.
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title The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf
title_short The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf
title_full The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf
title_fullStr The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf
title_full_unstemmed The long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on Malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / Mazila Md Yusuf
title_sort long-run impact of bilateral real exchange rate volatility on malaysia’s bilateral trade balance with its major trading partners / mazila md yusuf
publisher Universiti Teknologi MARA, Jengka
publishDate 2008
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/10116/
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