BUKU ABSTRAK - Universiti Putra Malaysia

Social Sciences
Determinants of Corporate Demands for Islamic Insurance in Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bany Ariffin
Faculty of Economics and Management, University Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
+603-8946 7735; bamin@econ.upm.edu.my
This study is the first attempt to empirically investigate the determinants of corporate demand for Islamic
insurance (takaful) using data from main board of public listed companies at Bursa Malaysia. Factors like leverage,
growth opportunities, expected bankruptcy costs, company size, managerial ownership, tax considerations and
regulated effects have been examined in this study. The data covers a five-year period from year 2002 - 2006.
The findings show that leverage, expected bankruptcy costs, tax considerations, company size, and managerial
ownership play an important role in determining the corporate demand for Islamic insurance in Malaysia. Our
conclusions are robust to alternative specifications model of GLS with Fixed Effects that help us to control for
unobservable heterogeneity.
Keywords: Islamic insurance, takaful, corporate demand, Malaysia
Does News Media Consumption Influences National Pride?
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ezhar Tamam
Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication, University Putra Malaysia,
43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia.
+603-8946 8663; ezhar@fbmk.upm.edu.my
This survey examined the role of ethnicity in the relationship of news consumption and national pride. A
total of 625 Malay, 416 Chinese and 112 Indian youths voluntary completed the self-administered questionnaires.
Controlling age, gender and self-identification, the results of the multiple regression analysis showed that
television news consumption significantly predicted national pride for all three ethnic samples but varied in
strength. Newspaper consumption was a significant predictor of national pride but only for the Chinese sample.
Keywords: National pride, news consumption, ethnicity
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