Fiscal decentralisation and economic growth in Malaysia: a market preserving federalism perspective

• Main Authors: Judhiana Abd. Ghani,, Grewal, Bhajan, Ahmed, Abdullahi D., Norashidah Mohamed Nor,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14075/1/jeko_53%281%29-13.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/14075/; http://www.ukm.my/fep/jem/content/2019.html

By using fiscal datasets from 1990 to 2010 in Malaysia, a panel Dynamic-OLS (DOLS) is employed to investigate the extent to which fiscal decentralisation can support state level economic growth as proposed in the Market preserving federalism (MPF) theory. Despite having a more centralised federali...