The determinants of foreign direct investment in Malaysia / Muhammad Nazrin Mahdhar

Mahdhar, Muhammad Nazrin (2015) The determinants of foreign direct investment in Malaysia / Muhammad Nazrin Mahdhar. [Student Project] (Unpublished)

Abstract

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) plays an important role as a catalyst to the development and economic growth of a country. In particular, developing countries rely heavily on FDI to stimulate their economy as they face lack of capital for their development process. FDI inflows of Malaysia started fluctuating from 1996 to 2013 and this high volatility of Malaysia FDI inflows drew the researcher attention to study the factors affecting FDI inflows in Malaysia. Multiple linear regressions model is applied to study the connection between explanatory variables (market size, economic growth, official real effective exchange rate and inflation rate) and explained variable
(Malaysia FDI inflow). Empirical results show that market size, economic growth and inflation rate positively affect Malaysia FDI inflows. Last but not least, exchange rates
failed to establish a significant relationship with Malaysia FDI inflows.

Metadata

Item Type:	Student Project
Creators:	Creators Email / ID Num. Mahdhar, Muhammad Nazrin 2011543625
Contributors:	Contribution Name Email / ID Num. Thesis advisor Ab Rani, Nor Zuriati Amani UNSPECIFIED
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance > Investment, capital formation, speculation H Social Sciences > HG Finance > Investment, capital formation, speculation > Investment companies. Investment trusts. Mutual funds H Social Sciences > HG Finance > Investment, capital formation, speculation > Foreign investments. Country risk
Divisions:	Universiti Teknologi MARA, Kelantan > Kota Bharu Campus > Faculty of Business and Management
Programme:	Bachelor of Business Administration with (Hons) Business Economic
Keywords:	Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), development, economic growth, (market size, economic growth, official real effective exchange rate and inflation rate.
Date:	January 2015
URI:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/38298