Granger-causal relationship between real exchange rate and economic growth: Malaysia as a case study

Charnikat Charnikat and Abul Masih

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Abstract: This report tries to examine the Granger-causality relationship between real exchange rate and economic growth using Malaysia as a case study. Using standard time series techniques, we found that the real exchange rate is an exogenous variable to net import and GDP. The results based on the generalized variance decompositions (VDC) tend to indicate that the GDP is a lagging endogenous variable and could not impact the exchange rate. On the other hand, the change in real exchange rate can influence the economic growth. It is also found that the government policy in putting foreign exchange reserve can influence exchange rate and economic growth. In addition, since the exchange rate leads economic growth, the policies which claim to be able to influence the exchange rate, such as monetary policy, would benefit the policy makers from further studies.

Keywords: Real exchange rate; economic growth; VECM; VDC; Malaysia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 C58 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04-16
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