Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil

The impact of the Southeast Asian currency turmoil on some ASEAN countries demonstrates the need to understand the regional currency movements. In view of the growing interest in the Southeast Asian currency turmoil, this paper investigates the relationship between the main ASEAN currencies namely,...

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Main Authors: Fauzias Mat Nor, Noor Azuddin Yakob, Zaidi Isa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2000
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1743/
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spelling ukm-17432016-12-14T06:30:08Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1743/ Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil Fauzias Mat Nor, Noor Azuddin Yakob, Zaidi Isa, The impact of the Southeast Asian currency turmoil on some ASEAN countries demonstrates the need to understand the regional currency movements. In view of the growing interest in the Southeast Asian currency turmoil, this paper investigates the relationship between the main ASEAN currencies namely, Thai Bhat, Malaysian Ringgit, Singapore Dollar, Indonesia Rupiah and the Philipines Peso by applying the cointegration test to determine the long run dynamics between the currencies. The causality test is also performed to determine the influence of each currency on each other. The results show that the currencies are non-stationary and at most there are four cointegrating vectors for the periods before and during the turmoil. The Granger causality test shows that Malaysian currency seems to have the most significant causalities on the ASEAN currencies during the turmoil. However, the variance decomposition and the multivariate vector autoregression reveal that the past information of each currency contributed the most to its forecast error Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2000-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1743/1/1465-2749-1-SM.pdf Fauzias Mat Nor, and Noor Azuddin Yakob, and Zaidi Isa, (2000) Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil. Jurnal Pengurusan, 19 . ISSN 0127-2713 http://www.ukm.my/penerbit/jurus.htm
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description The impact of the Southeast Asian currency turmoil on some ASEAN countries demonstrates the need to understand the regional currency movements. In view of the growing interest in the Southeast Asian currency turmoil, this paper investigates the relationship between the main ASEAN currencies namely, Thai Bhat, Malaysian Ringgit, Singapore Dollar, Indonesia Rupiah and the Philipines Peso by applying the cointegration test to determine the long run dynamics between the currencies. The causality test is also performed to determine the influence of each currency on each other. The results show that the currencies are non-stationary and at most there are four cointegrating vectors for the periods before and during the turmoil. The Granger causality test shows that Malaysian currency seems to have the most significant causalities on the ASEAN currencies during the turmoil. However, the variance decomposition and the multivariate vector autoregression reveal that the past information of each currency contributed the most to its forecast error
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author Fauzias Mat Nor,
Noor Azuddin Yakob,
Zaidi Isa,
spellingShingle Fauzias Mat Nor,
Noor Azuddin Yakob,
Zaidi Isa,
Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil
author_facet Fauzias Mat Nor,
Noor Azuddin Yakob,
Zaidi Isa,
author_sort Fauzias Mat Nor,
title Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil
title_short Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil
title_full Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil
title_fullStr Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil
title_full_unstemmed Cointegration test on ASEAN currencies before and during the currency turmoil
title_sort cointegration test on asean currencies before and during the currency turmoil
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2000
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1743/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1743/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/1743/1/1465-2749-1-SM.pdf
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