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Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia

48 (1) 2014 3 – 12

Trade Linkages and Domestic Market Concentration: An Empirical Exploration for Malaysia
Hubungan Perdagangan dan Penumpuan Pasaran Domestik: Satu Penerokaan Empirikal untuk Malaysia

Associate Professor
Department of Economics
Faculty of Economics & Administration
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA.

evelyns@um.edu.my

Senior Lecturer
Department of Southeast Asian Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA.

stkarasu@um.edu.my

Abstract

This paper examines the univariate relationship between global linkages of the Malaysian manufacturing sector in the form of export intensity and intra-industry trade, respectively, on inter-industry concentration. The recently developed fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) panel cointegration techniques are employed. The estimated long-run coefficients reveal that intra-industry trade contributes towards more concentrated markets. However, export intensity is not significantly associated with market dominance. This suggests that domestic market structure is directly related to industries that engage in two-way trade flows or trade overlap. The structure of trade therefore deserves further attention when analyzing market dominance in the Malaysian manufacturing sector, which is globally integrated at the production level. It would thus be viable to examine why and to what extent vertically integrated industries that simultaneously facilitate not just external markets for components or final products but also the import markets for components (inputs) pose barriers to industries that are less networked globally

Keywords

Export intensity; intra-industry trade; Malaysia; market concentration; panel cointegration
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Devadason, , & Subramaniam, (2014). Trade Linkages and Domestic Market Concentration: An Empirical Exploration for Malaysia. Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia, 48(1), 3–12.

@article{devadason2014trade,
  title={Trade Linkages and Domestic Market Concentration: An Empirical Exploration for Malaysia},
  author={Devadason, Evelyn and Subramaniam, Thirunaukarasu},
  journal={Jurnal Ekonomi Malaysia},
  volume={48},
  number={1},
  pages={3—12},
 

year={2014},
}

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