This article examines the direct effect of the extent of foreign ownership on technical efficiency in Malaysia's automotive industry by applying a stochastic frontier production function analysis to micro-panel data over the years 2000--2004. Technical efficiency in the overall automotive...

Malaysia’s merchandise trade flows between 1990-1997 is decomposed into intraindustry trade (IIT) and net trade (NT). NT is further decomposed into net exports and net imports to evaluate the changing structure of trade on the merchandise trade balance. The Grubel-Lloyd (GL) index was used to...

Based on the decision to file an escape clause petition by a firm, a Poisson regression model of the macroeconomic determinants of the total number of these petitions yearly is developed and estimated. The Poisson specification conforms to the fact that the number of escape clause petitions is a...