Tang, Maggie May-Jean and Puah, Chin Hong and Liew, Venus Khim-Sen (2015) The Interest Rate Pass-Through in Malaysia: An Analysis on Asymmetric Adjustment. International Journal of Economics and Management, 9 (2). pp. 370-381. ISSN 1823 - 836X
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The interest rate channel is the primary and most important mechanism for policymakers. Knowledge of the pass-through of interest rates has allowed policymakers to draw conclusions on how fast and to what extent a shock in policy rates are transmitted to retail rates. This paper investigates the pass-through effect of policy rate on retail rates in Malaysia. Asymmetric threshold autoregressive (TAR) and momentum threshold autoregressive (MTAR) proposed by Enders and Siklos (2001) are employed in the study. Over the period of January 1987 to December 2014, the policy rate was found to be an incomplete pass-through to deposit and lending rates. Based on the asymmetric analysis, we discover the asymmetry effects in the response of retail rates to the change of policy rate. In addition, we find downward rigidity in both deposit and lending rates.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Asymmetric, Interest rate pass-through, MTAR, Retail rates, TAR, unimas, university, universiti, Borneo, Malaysia, Sarawak, Kuching, Samarahan, ipta, education, research, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
| Divisions: | Academic Faculties, Institutes and Centres > Faculty of Economics and Business Faculties, Institutes, Centres > Faculty of Economics and Business |
| Depositing User: | Ab Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2017 06:50 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Oct 2017 06:50 |
| URI: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/18008 |
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