It is widely feared that outward FDI gradually hollows out domestic manufacturing and displaces local workers. We address this concern by drawing on exceptionally informative firm-specific data on Taiwanese multinationals in manufacturing. In particular, we assess whether repercussions at home depend on the size, location and type of outward FDI. We control for firm heterogeneity and estimate o...

China is the most significant transition economy. It is most heavily engaged in international business and investment. China is the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) recipient in the developing countries, accounting for almost half of total FDI inflow in developing countries (World Investment Report, 1999). China is also unique because its transition continues to be planned by the state a...

The crisis on international financial markets that started in 2007 has shown the potential links between the financial sector and the real economy. Exports and foreign direct investment (FDI) have declined, presumably not only because of a lack of demand, but also because of restricted access of firms to external finance. In this paper, we explore the impact of access to external finance on fir...

Components of industrial processes are often affected by un-permitted or un-expected deviations from normal operation behaviour. The fault detection task consists of determination of the fault present in a system and the time of detection. In addition to fault detection follows the fault identification by determination of kind, location and time of detection of a fault. These procedures are bas...

Today’s largest systems have over 100,000 cores, with million-core systems expected over the next few years. The large component count means that these systems fail frequently and often in very complex ways, making them difficult to use and maintain. While prior work on fault detection and diagnosis has focused on faults that significantly reduce system functionality, the wide variety of failur...

We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral (cooperative) determination of competition policy, exploring the properties of policy equilibrium. It is not imperfect competition, but variation in competitive stance between sectors that matters for trading partners. Beggar-thy-neighbor competition policies relate to countries’ co...

Routing protocol faults cause problems ranging from an inability to communicate to excessive routing overhead. This paper proposes a system for detecting a wide range of routing protocol faults. Our system deploys virtual routers called RouteMonitors to monitor a routing protocol. We deployed RouteMonitors in the MBone’s DVMRP infrastructure and uncovered a number of faults. We were also able t...

In this paper we examine the relationship between firm characteristics and the decision of the firm to sell in the domestic market, export and/or invest abroad. We find that globalisation of Indian firms through the sharp increase in exports and foreign direct investment can be explained by firm characteristics. Data for a set of more than 1600 Indian firms for 10 years shows that exporting and...

Abstract— This paper addresses fault diagnosis for observerbased residual generators for linear discrete-time systems subject to unknown input. The proposed approach is a new method allowing to characterize a class of unknown inputs from which the estimation error is decoupled. This contribution is divided into two parts. The first one concerns the design of the UIO satisfying either an exact d...