Economics Malaysia

From a batch of NBER working papers a few weeks ago (abstract; emphasis added): CEO Behavior and Firm Performance Oriana Ban...

Actually, three charts altogether: Issue 1: Global fish landings have stagnated since the 1990s. Effectively, demand is increasingly be...

Manufacturing sales versus trend forecast (RM millions): Boom. Technical Notes: Data from various issues of Monthly Manufacturing St...

A couple of things here: Malaysian inflation will zoom this year. No, really, for real! Uh, no, not really. What’s with the two ...

The World Bank’s Malaysia Hub has a new brief on the effect of immigrant workers on productivity (excerpt): Threat or Help? The Effec...

The NEER and REER page has been updated , as has the Google Docs version . Summary Despite relative stability against the USD in Februar...

David Beckworth thinks the Fed is the global central bank (excerpt): The Monetary Superpower: As Strong As Ever [A] defining fe...

This is slowly making the rounds (excerpt): Where Crony Capitalism Rose and Prosperity Fell (and Vice Versa) By Matthew A. W...

The NEER and REER page has been updated , as has the Google Docs version . Summary Both the NEER and REER continued to decline in Januar...

The NEER and REER page has been updated . For convenience, I’ve added a Google Docs version of the data (link at the bottom of the table). ...

Me, pontificating on the Ringgit and BNM’s new measures, over the past week: Your browser does not support native audio, but you can down...

Imagine you have a widget to sell, something that helps pick apples. You offer the widget to a bunch of apple farmers, who think, yes, very ...