The macroeconomics factors that influence foreign direct investment in Malaysia / Adzim Iskandar Mohd Ariff

The aim of this investigation is to examine microeconomics factors that influence foreign direct investment in Malaysia. This paper examines whether the changes trend of the foreign direct investment in Malaysia will give an impact on exchange rate, interest rate and import. Over the past few years, the foreign direct investment in Malaysia has experienced difficulty after economic crisis. The investigation will explain more about the relationship between the foreign direct investment and the independent variables for 10 years. In the process of findings there are few types of analysis were tested using Econometric Views (E-views), such as single linear regression, multiple linear regression, descriptive statistics, unit root tests, and more. The result indicates that there are significantly related to economic growths. This study can be useful for investors, companies and even government to know which factors that affect economy in Malaysia.