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Monetary policy and firms’ investment:
Dynamic panel data evidence from
Malaysia
Abdul Karim, Zulkefly
School of Economics, Faculty of Economics Business, National
University of Malaysia, Economics Division, School of Social
Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
10 February 2010
Online at
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23962/
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