The impacts of macroeconomic factors on economic growth in Japan/ Athirah Faiqah Othman

This study investigates the impacts of macroeconomic factors on economic growth (EG) GDP per capita in Japan using time series data from 1986 to 2015. In this study, there are specified variables for five macroeconomic factors which is broad money growth (BMNY), Imports of goods and services (IMP), Inflation, GDP deflator (GDPDEF), Exports of goods and services (EXPT) and Inflation, consumer prices (CPI). Japan is a developed country and also known as a country that strongly success with highly market oriented economy. Also, macroeconomics is related with the deal on economic towards the performance, structure, behaviour and decision-making of an economy as a whole of a country. Therefore, this study is to look the positive or negative result either all the variables of macroeconomic factors would give impact to the economic growth of Japan or vice versa.