Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 
Author-Name: Basem Ertimi
Author-Name: Tamat Sarmidi
Author-Name: Norlin Khalid
Author-Name: Mohd Helmi Ali
Author-Email:  b.ertimi@zu.edu.ly
Author-Workplace-Name:  Faculty of Economics, University of Zawia, Libya
Title: Movement Control Order Policy to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 and Its Impact on Quarterly Growth and Its Components in Malaysia - A Synthetic Control Method for Policy Evaluation
Abstract:  In an attempt to mitigate the effects of COVID-19, the Malaysian government imposed the Movement Control Order (MCO). To address the adverse impacts of the MCO policy, the Malaysian government initiated a series of recovery plans for both fiscal and monetary measures. This study aims to assess the government’s various policy measures on Malaysia’s leading macroeconomic indicators. Regardless of the differences in the gross domestic product (GDP) components, the real impacts on GDP growth are almost identical between Malaysia and a control group. This result is partly explained by the increase in total and domestic investment and private consumption.
Classification-JEL:  C90,I10,P24
Keywords:  synthetic control group,Malaysia,COVID-19 crisis,GDP components,MCO
Journal:  Asian Economics Letters
Pages: 1-6
Volume: 3
Issue: Early View
Year:  2022
DOI:  2022/06/16
File-URL:  https://a-e-l.scholasticahq.com/api/v1/articles/29950-movement-control-order-policy-to-prevent-the-spread-of-covid-19-and-its-impact-on-quarterly-growth-and-its-components-in-malaysia-a-synthetic-control.pdf
File-Format:  Application/pdf
Handle:  RePEc:ayb:jrnael:63