Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar

Household debt of Malaysia keep growing year by year. This situation can give big impact to the economic system if the debt reach at one point of level that can’t be controlled. High in household debt is not only affected to the economy, but also affected on the financial stability. The main reason...

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Main Author: Azhar, Alyaa Amanina Azhar
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Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business Management 2017
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23027/
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description Household debt of Malaysia keep growing year by year. This situation can give big impact to the economic system if the debt reach at one point of level that can’t be controlled. High in household debt is not only affected to the economy, but also affected on the financial stability. The main reason why households is taking on loan is to fulfil their expenditure and dependence on future income, the attitude and behaviour of the individual himself, low in the cost of borrowing that give opportunity to household to borrow, easy to get credit facilities which boosts spending on credit, increase in cost of living and increase in housing price, and continued economic growth. All this reasons made household feel comfortable in taking on loan. The objective of this study is to find the factors that affect the household debt in Malaysia. The variables selected is from macroeconomic variables. The data are taken from the year 1985 to 2015. Multiple Regression test are used in this study resulting consumer price index and lending interest rate are significant with household debt.
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spelling uitm-230272019-03-21T02:32:39Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23027/ Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar Azhar, Alyaa Amanina Azhar Macroeconomics Credit. Debt. Loans Household debt of Malaysia keep growing year by year. This situation can give big impact to the economic system if the debt reach at one point of level that can’t be controlled. High in household debt is not only affected to the economy, but also affected on the financial stability. The main reason why households is taking on loan is to fulfil their expenditure and dependence on future income, the attitude and behaviour of the individual himself, low in the cost of borrowing that give opportunity to household to borrow, easy to get credit facilities which boosts spending on credit, increase in cost of living and increase in housing price, and continued economic growth. All this reasons made household feel comfortable in taking on loan. The objective of this study is to find the factors that affect the household debt in Malaysia. The variables selected is from macroeconomic variables. The data are taken from the year 1985 to 2015. Multiple Regression test are used in this study resulting consumer price index and lending interest rate are significant with household debt. Faculty of Business Management 2017 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23027/1/PPb_ALYA%20AMANINA%20AZHAR%20J%20BM%2017_5.pdf Azhar, Alyaa Amanina Azhar (2017) Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar. (2017) [Student Project] (Submitted)
spellingShingle Macroeconomics
Credit. Debt. Loans
Azhar, Alyaa Amanina Azhar
Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar
title Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar
title_full Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar
title_fullStr Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar
title_full_unstemmed Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar
title_short Rising household debt in Malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / Alyaa Amanina Azhar
title_sort rising household debt in malaysia: macroeconomics determinant / alyaa amanina azhar
topic Macroeconomics
Credit. Debt. Loans
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23027/