Determinants of exchange rate towards export in selected countries / Nurul Shakinah Hilme

This research is to study the determinants of exchange rate towards export in
selected countries such as Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, China, India, Singapore and
Indonesia. whereby there is another factor involve GDP rate, exchange rate and
inflation rate. Moreover, this study is to identify which one of the independent
variables chosen that have most significant impact towards export. The reason of this
study is undertaken is because the declining trend of data in export sector due to
declining in exchange rate. It became a worrisome to Malaysia economy growth.
Even though the declining in export are not seeing the effects directly to the balance
of trade or economic growth but currently now government more spending than
earning. In this study where GDP rate, inflation rate and exchange rate are
independent variables and export rate as the dependent variable. This paper literally
shows on the significant determinants of exchange rate towards export.
In this study, the software used is E-views to diagnose the data from year
1988-2018, the data collected from World Bank Data and Macroeconomic, analyse
the Unit root-test and Granger Causality. Turn out the result are significant between
the variable export rate and exchange rate, inflate rate shows insignificant
determinants of exchange rate towards the changes of export rate.