Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between inflation rate and gross domestic production, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate and fiscal deficit. The study used four models of Multiple Linear Regression in order to find the relationship between inflation rate and gro...

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Main Author: Akbar, Siti Hafizah
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31069/
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description The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between inflation rate and gross domestic production, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate and fiscal deficit. The study used four models of Multiple Linear Regression in order to find the relationship between inflation rate and gross domestic production, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate and fiscal deficit. The quarterly data was collected from 1996 until 2014. From the result, it reveals that gross domestic production and interest rate have positive significant relationship toward inflation rate while unemployment rate has positive insignificant relationship toward inflation rate. Exchange rate and fiscal deficit have negative insignificant relationship toward inflation rate. It means that there are effect between inflation rate and gross domestic production and interest rate. These results further our understanding of the relationship between inflation rate and gross domestic production, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate and fiscal deficit and should be useful for public, industries and policy makers.
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spelling uitm-310692020-08-24T07:11:07Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31069/ Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar Akbar, Siti Hafizah HB Economic Theory. Demography Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product Interest rates The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between inflation rate and gross domestic production, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate and fiscal deficit. The study used four models of Multiple Linear Regression in order to find the relationship between inflation rate and gross domestic production, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate and fiscal deficit. The quarterly data was collected from 1996 until 2014. From the result, it reveals that gross domestic production and interest rate have positive significant relationship toward inflation rate while unemployment rate has positive insignificant relationship toward inflation rate. Exchange rate and fiscal deficit have negative insignificant relationship toward inflation rate. It means that there are effect between inflation rate and gross domestic production and interest rate. These results further our understanding of the relationship between inflation rate and gross domestic production, unemployment rate, exchange rate, interest rate and fiscal deficit and should be useful for public, industries and policy makers. 2015 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31069/1/31069.pdf Akbar, Siti Hafizah (2015) Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar. (2015) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/31069.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory. Demography
Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
Interest rates
Akbar, Siti Hafizah
Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar
title Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar
title_full Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar
title_fullStr Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar
title_full_unstemmed Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar
title_short Factors that influencing inflation rate in Malaysia / Siti Hafizah Akbar
title_sort factors that influencing inflation rate in malaysia / siti hafizah akbar
topic HB Economic Theory. Demography
Income. Income distribution. National income. Including gross national product, gross domestic product, and gross state product
Interest rates
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31069/