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Causality between White Pepper and Black Pepper: Evidence from Six

Markets in Sarawak

Lau, Evan and Puah, Chin-Hong and Oh, Swee-Ling and Lo, Yan-Ching

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

4 January 2008

Online at https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6552/

MPRA Paper No. 6552, posted 04 Jan 2008 00:00 UTC

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