Dr. Mahathir is often credited with Malaysia’s economic success post-1980. However, it is well known that the Mahathir regime centralized power in the Office of the Prime Minister and extended state capacity, creating a system of government susceptible to corruption. This corruption eventually...

This study examines the impacts of a sorghum-based ethanol plant established in a major cotton producing area on local sorghum basis and cotton acreage distribution using county-level panel data from 2002 to 2014. Spatial econometric models are employed to account for any spatial dependence. Our...