The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia

Personal bankruptcy is one of the major issues that happened in Malaysia recently but the determinants of personal bankruptcy cases are still have the room for exploration. This research shows an empirical study of the macroeconomic factors and social elements leading to personal bankruptcy cases in...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Choong, Mun Haw, Liew, Wei Ying, Loo, Jing Xuan, Ong, Cindy, Than, Yi Qian
Format: Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
Published: 2019
Subjects:
Online Access:http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3920/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3920/1/fyp_FN_2019_CMH_%2D_1606862.pdf
_version_ 1848886025918611456
author Choong, Mun Haw
Liew, Wei Ying
Loo, Jing Xuan
Ong, Cindy
Than, Yi Qian
author_facet Choong, Mun Haw
Liew, Wei Ying
Loo, Jing Xuan
Ong, Cindy
Than, Yi Qian
author_sort Choong, Mun Haw
building UTAR Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description Personal bankruptcy is one of the major issues that happened in Malaysia recently but the determinants of personal bankruptcy cases are still have the room for exploration. This research shows an empirical study of the macroeconomic factors and social elements leading to personal bankruptcy cases in Malaysia based on the available data from 1984 to 2017. The determinants in this research include lending rate, unemployment rate, and divorce cases. Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was employed to study the relationship of lending rate, unemployment rate, and divorce cases toward personal bankruptcy cases. The results suggested that there is insignificant relationship between divorce cases and personal bankruptcy cases while lending rate and unemployment rate has significant relationship between personal bankruptcy cases. The results show that the rising of lending rate, unemployment rate and divorce cases will lead to the decrease of personal bankruptcy in Malaysia. Based on this study, future researchers are recommended to collect primary data to improve the accuracy of the results. Besides that, future researchers are also recommended to collect data not only based on the macroeconomic disaggregate level but also based on the disaggregate level of individual family. Lastly, it is advisable to lengthen the study period of research so that future researchers could be more focused in studying more relevant topics.
first_indexed 2025-11-15T19:31:56Z
format Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis
id utar-3920
institution Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman
institution_category Local University
last_indexed 2025-11-15T19:31:56Z
publishDate 2019
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling utar-39202021-01-07T07:14:32Z The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia Choong, Mun Haw Liew, Wei Ying Loo, Jing Xuan Ong, Cindy Than, Yi Qian HG Finance Personal bankruptcy is one of the major issues that happened in Malaysia recently but the determinants of personal bankruptcy cases are still have the room for exploration. This research shows an empirical study of the macroeconomic factors and social elements leading to personal bankruptcy cases in Malaysia based on the available data from 1984 to 2017. The determinants in this research include lending rate, unemployment rate, and divorce cases. Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was employed to study the relationship of lending rate, unemployment rate, and divorce cases toward personal bankruptcy cases. The results suggested that there is insignificant relationship between divorce cases and personal bankruptcy cases while lending rate and unemployment rate has significant relationship between personal bankruptcy cases. The results show that the rising of lending rate, unemployment rate and divorce cases will lead to the decrease of personal bankruptcy in Malaysia. Based on this study, future researchers are recommended to collect primary data to improve the accuracy of the results. Besides that, future researchers are also recommended to collect data not only based on the macroeconomic disaggregate level but also based on the disaggregate level of individual family. Lastly, it is advisable to lengthen the study period of research so that future researchers could be more focused in studying more relevant topics. 2019-08-15 Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3920/1/fyp_FN_2019_CMH_%2D_1606862.pdf Choong, Mun Haw and Liew, Wei Ying and Loo, Jing Xuan and Ong, Cindy and Than, Yi Qian (2019) The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia. Final Year Project, UTAR. http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3920/
spellingShingle HG Finance
Choong, Mun Haw
Liew, Wei Ying
Loo, Jing Xuan
Ong, Cindy
Than, Yi Qian
The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia
title The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia
title_full The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia
title_fullStr The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia
title_short The effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in Malaysia
title_sort effect of macroeconomics and social element toward personal bankruptcy in malaysia
topic HG Finance
url http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3920/
http://eprints.utar.edu.my/3920/1/fyp_FN_2019_CMH_%2D_1606862.pdf