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Books, monographs:
Buckley, Peter. J. and Casson, Mark (2003) The Future of the Multinational Enterprise (London: Macmillan)

Contribution to books:
Mueller, D.C. (2001) United States' antitrust at the crossroads, in: H.W. de Jong and W.G. Shepherd (Eds), Mainstreams in Industrial Organization, Book II, pp.215-41 (Dordrecht: Kluwer).

Journal articles:
Williamson, Oliver E.(1989) Economies as an antitrust defence: the welfare tradeoffs, American Economic Review, 58 (1), pp. 18-31.

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