Determinants of gross domestic savings in Malaysia

The aim of this study is to analyse the determinants of gross domestic savings in Malaysia. This study used four determinants of gross domestic savings such as inflation, economic growth, age dependency ratio and money supply. The time period that is used to study the determinants of gross domestic savings is for 31 years from 1986 to 2016. This study focuses only in Malaysia as subject of study. All data is collected from the World Bank and Bank Negara Malaysia. Unit root test such as ADF, PP and KPSS are used to determine the stationarity of data. From the findings, inflation and economic growth have positive and significant impact on gross domestic saving while age dependency ratio and money supply have negative and insignificant relationship towards gross domestic savings.