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

• Main Authors: Abd. Ghani, Judhiana, Grewal, Bhajan, Ahmed, Abdullahi D., Mohamed Nor, Norashidah
• Format: Article
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/79911/; https://www.ukm.my/jem/article/fiscal-decentralisation-and-economic-growth-in-malaysia-a-market-preserving-federalism-perspective/

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 federalism...