An investigation on trade openness, fiscal policy and economic growth in Malaysia: using an ARDL bounds testing approach

• Main Authors: Abdullah, Hussin, Mohd Mustafa, Muszafarshah, Habibullah, Muzafar Shah
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia Press 2009
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13051/1/An%20investigation%20on%20trade%20openness%2C%20fiscal%20policy%20and%20economic%20growth%20in%20Malaysia%20using%20an%20ARDL%20bounds%20testing%20approach.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13051/; http://ijms.uum.edu.my/index.php/previous-issues/147-international-journal-of-management-studies-ijms-vol-16-no-2-december-2009

This study examines the impacts of trade openness and fiscal policy on economic growth in Malaysia between 1970 and 2003 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach and bounds test as proposed by Pesaran et al. (2001). Based on a structure consistent with the endogenous growth theory, t...