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...

The phenomenon of economic specialization of Malaysians along racial lines was probably the most important colonial legacy that was left behind by the British when the country attained its independence in 1957. At the time of independence, the indigenous Malay people, collectively termed as...