FACTORS INFLUENCING EXCHANGE RATE FOR SELECTING ASIAN COUNTRIES
NUR NADZIRAH BINTI ROSLI 2017662612
BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (HONS.) FINANCE FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA MELAKA
JANUARY 2020
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BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION (HONS.) FINANCE FACULTY OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
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I, NUR NADZIRAH BINTI ROSLI, 960625-10-5776 Hereby, declare that:
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Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons.) Finance Faculty Business Administration
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Dear Madam,
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FACTORS INFLUENCING EXCHANGE RATE FOR SELECTING ASIAN COUNTRIES
I am required to do a project paper on the above topic. I hereby submitted this report and I really hope that this work will fulfil the requirement for the Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons.) Finance.
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NUR NADZIRAH BINTI ROSLI 20172612
Bachelor of Business Administration (Hons.) Finance
v TABLE OF CONTENTS
TTLE PAGE ... i
DECLARATION OF ORIGINAL WORK ... ii
LETTER OF SUBMISSION ... iii
ACKOWLEDGEMENT ... iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... v
LIST OF FIGURES ... vii
LIST OF TABLES ... viii
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ... ix
ABSTRACT... x
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ... 1
1.1. BACKGROUND OF STUDY ... 1
1.2. PROBLEM STATEMENT ... 8
1.3. RESEARCH QUESTION ... 11
1.4. RESEARCH OBJECTIVE ... 11
1.5. SIGNIFICANT OF RESEARCH ... 12
1.5.1. Individual ... 12
1.5.2. Industry ... 12
1.6. SCOPE AND COVERAGE OF RESEARCH ... 13
1.7. LIMITATIONS ... 14
1.8. DEFINITION OF TERM ... 15
1.8.1. Exchange Rate ... 15
1.8.2. Inflation Rate ... 15
1.8.3. Interest Rate ... 15
1.8.4. Import Rate ... 15
CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW ... 16
2.1. INTRODUCTION OF CHAPTER 2 ... 16
2.2. LITERATURE REVIEW ON DEPENDENT VARIABLE ... 16
2.3. LITERATURE REVIEW OF INDEPENDENT VARIABLE ... 18
2.3.1. Inflation Rate ... 18
2.3.2. Interest Rate ... 20
x ABSTRACT
This research to investigate factors influencing exchange rate for four (4) Asian countries. The factors influencing which is fluctuations of inflation rate, interest rate, changes of export and import. The panel data of 31 years from 1987 until 2017 has been use for this study. In this research also cover 4 Asian countries which is China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. However, the result to investigate the relationship between exchange rate and other variables, is an exchange rate depend on others variables? Through this research to examine the relationship between all the independent variables and dependent variable which exchange rate, independent variable such as inflation rate, interest rate and import. Thus, to get the result for this study the researcher is use EViews to run all test inside.
Keywords: Exchange rate, inflation rate, interest rate and import