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Conference Paper
Financial reform and the role of foreign banks in Malaysia
Journal Article
Export competition and contagious currency crises
Journal Article
Responses to capital inflows in Malaysia and Thailand
Journal Article
Do capital controls affect the response of investment to saving? evidence from the Pacific Basin
This paper examines the effect of capital controls on the response of investment to savings in Pacific Basin countries. A robust finding is that the size of the savings coefficient tends to be smaller (larger) in countries with relatively higher (lower) capital controls. Additionally, relaxation in capital controls for the most part had no discernible impact on the savings- investment relationship in individual country time-series regressions. At least a partial resolution to these puzzles is found in the government policy response: Countries with a relatively high saving-investment ...
Working Paper
Capital controls during financial crises: the case of Malaysia and Thailand
This study examines the impact capital controls had in Malaysia (1998-1999) and Thailand (1997). We aim to assess the extent to which the capital controls were effective in delivering the outcomes that motivated their imposition. We conclude that in Thailand the controls did not deliver much of what was intended--although, one does not observe the counterfactual. By contrast, in the case of Malaysia the controls did align closely with the priors of what controls are intended to achieve: greater interest rate and exchange rate stability and more policy autonomy.
Journal Article
External shocks and adjustment in four Asian economics--1978-87
Periodic Essay
Islamic finance: Malaysia's growing role
This Asia Focus report explores the topic of Islamic finance and highlights Malaysias role in developing the Islamic finance market.
Conference Paper
Econometric modeling in Malaysia