Vertical integration, foreign multinationals and Stigler's hypotheses: An empirical test using Malaysian data

Asian Economic Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 257-274

  Nor, Nor Ghani ^a   Abdullah, Ahmad Zainuddin ^b   Nor, Khalil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Foreign multinationals; Transaction costs; Vertical integration

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PANEL DATA; TRANSACTION COST; VERTICAL INTEGRATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MALAYSIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 33748324663     PISSN: 13513958     EISSN: 14678381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2006.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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