Consumer credit and monetary policy in Malaysia

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 188-193

  Kassim, Salina Hj ^a   Manap, Turkhan Ali Abdul ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Consumer credit; Consumer indebtedness; Impulse response functions; Monetary policy; Variance decompositions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983431676     PISSN: 14706423     EISSN: 14706431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1470-6431.2008.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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