Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3233
Title: Financial development-ecological footprint nexus in Malaysia: the role of institutions
Authors: Dada, James Temitope 
Adeiza, Adams 
Ismail, N. A. 
Arnaut, Marina 
Keywords: Ecological footprint;Financial development;Institutional quality;Malaysia
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
Journal: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 
Abstract: 
Purpose: Motivated by the conflicting evidence on the effect of financial development on environmental quality, this study investigates the moderating role of institutional quality in the link between financial development and environmental quality using a robust proxy in Malaysia from 1984 to 2017. Design/methodology/approach: Ecological footprint is used to measure environmental quality, while financial development is proxied using three measures (domestic credit provided by the private sector, domestic credit provided by the financial sector and domestic credit provided by the banking sector). An index of institutional quality is generated from voice and accountability, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law and control of corruption. Autoregressive Distributed Lag Bounds Test, Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square and Canonical Cointegrating Regression were used as the estimation techniques. Findings: The results show that financial development, institutional quality, economic growth and foreign direct investment improve environmental quality in the short run, whereas trade openness and natural resources worsen it. In the long run, financial development, institutional quality, economic growth, trade openness and natural resources deteriorate the environment. Furthermore, findings from the interactive term suggest that institutions and financial development complement each other to affect the environment in the short run. However, institutions and financial development perform a substitutability role in influencing the environment in the long run. Practical implications: The outcome of this study suggests that there are time lags in the relationship between institutional quality, financial development and ecological footprint in Malaysia. Furthermore, the study offers important policy implications to policymakers in Malaysia and other developing countries on how to mitigate environmental degradation. Originality/value: This study contributes to the body of knowledge on the moderating role of institutional quality in the relationship between financial development and ecological footprint in Malaysia. It examines the direct and indirect effects of financial development on environmental degradation through institutional quality, which have received less attention in the context of Malaysia. The findings from this study are robust to different proxies and estimation techniques.
Description: 
Web of Science / Scopus
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3233
ISSN: 14777835
DOI: 10.1108/MEQ-10-2021-0251
Appears in Collections:Malaysia Graduate School of Entrepreneurship and Business - Journal (Scopus/WOS)

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