ASEAN member states intend to establish the ASEAN Community by 2015. A key component of this goal is the formation of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The AEC Blueprint was initiated to facilitate and monitor the implementation of the AEC during the period 2008–2015. Competition policy will...

This study attempts to explore the relationships between trade, productivity and innovation using firm-level data from three innovation surveys covering the period 1997-2004. It is found that the link between exporting and productivity is a weak one in Malaysia. Productivity is driven mainly by...