The impact of macroeconomic variables of China and Japan on Malaysia economy / Nurul Nasihah Ramli

The developed country has influenced and impact the economy of developing country has been hot issue facing the economists. This paper examines the impact of macroeconomic variables of China and Japan on Malaysia economy. Basically, macroeconomic variable such as inflation rate, exchange rate and interest rate play a key role in measure the economy growth of any country are used in the study. The Malaysia economy in the research are measure using Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Malaysia and the sample period runs from year 2000 until 2012 covering one global economic crisis 2008/2009 by using time series data. This study implies that knowing which country exactly affect in the process of transforming Malaysia' s economy toward good performance and high income nation in the future.