Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Malaysia: Do Macroeconomic Policies Matter?

• Autorzy: Atif Awad
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Malaysia plans to become a high-income economy in the coming years via what is called the ETP (Economic Transformation Program). To achieve this, Malaysia requires a sufficient level of foreign capital and thus is implementing appropriate investment initiatives to stimulate economic activity. So far, Malaysia has only been able to attract a small number of foreign investors. With a relatively small amount of FDI flowing into the country, the expectations of the Economic Transformation Program (ETP) that heavily rely on FDI may be challenged. The current paper analyses how selected macroeconomic factors might impact the flow of FDI into Malaysia. The ARDL (Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag) technique was used together with the VAR (Vector Autoregressive Model) on annual data (1970-2017). The study has found that over time, appreciation of the local currency, openness, inflation and labour cost had a significant negative impact on the inward flow of FDI. Conversely, over the longer term, real interest rate and GDP growth produced substantial positive effects on FDI. The findings suggest that when aiming to create an attractive for FDI environment, it is necessary for governments to closely consider macroeconomic policies that lower both production and transaction costs of multinational enterprises. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Foreign investment; Direct investments; Exchange rates; Macroeconomic policy

PL

Inwestycje zagraniczne; Inwestycje bezpośrednie; Kurs walutowy; Polityka makroekonomiczna

• Czasopismo: Journal of International Studies
• Rocznik: 2020
• Tom: 13
• Numer: nr 1
• Strony: 196--211

Twórcy

autor

Atif Awad

• American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

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Identyfikatory

DOI

10.14254/2071-8330.2020/13-1/13