Abstract
The economic performance of Malaysia was affected by a series of financial crises that had induced macroeconomic instability in the country, which in turn had immensely dampened the nation’s economic growth rate. No doubt Malaysia needs an indicator to monitor the nation’s economic performance from time to time. This study attempts to construct such indicator known as Macroeconomic Instability Index (MII). The constructed MII shows two significant spikes at 1998 and 2008, which correspond to the Asian Financial Crisis and US Subprime Mortgage respectively, that had resulted in negative growth rate for GDP of Malaysia in 1999 and 2010. Results obtained from further analysis by the ARDL technique show that MII has negative and significance effects on economic performance. Moreover, MII has predictive power against economic performance as early as two periods in advance. The constructed MII could serve as end-product for policy purposes or intermediate-product for other economic and finance studies.
Highlights
The economic performance of Malaysia was affected by a series of financial crises that had induced macroeconomic instability in the country, which in turn had immensely dampened the nation’s economic growth rate
This study aims to construct Macroeconomic Instability Index (MII) for Malaysia and analyses its impact on economic performance
The F-statistics reveals the overall significance of the included independent variables and the R2 value indicates that these variables can explained 99% of the variations in the dependent variables, i.e., gross domestic product per capital (GDPPC)
Summary
The economic performance of Malaysia was affected by a series of financial crises that had induced macroeconomic instability in the country, which in turn had immensely dampened the nation’s economic growth rate. The negative effect of 1997 Asian Financial Crisis and the 2007 US Subprime Mortgage Crisis (which turned into a fully-blown Global Financial Crisis in September 2008) caused Malaysian economy to perform poorly. These crises reduced Malaysia’s exports as well as national aggregate demand. It is obvious that Malaysia needs an indicator to monitor the nation’s economic performance from time to time In this conjunction, Macroeconomic Instability Index (MII) is an important indicator of a country’s economic condition. This study aims to construct MII for Malaysia and analyses its impact on economic performance
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