Turkhan Ali Abdul Manap Dept. of Economics, KENMS, International Islamic University Malaysia   P.O. Box 10 Kuala Lumpur, 50728 Malaysia   turkhan@iium.edu.my         Primary Research Focus: Monetary Economics, Business Cycles, Financial Economics and Applied Econometrics (Time Series, Nonlinear Time Series)   JEL Areas: E : Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics E5 : Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General