Foreign investors access local knowledge by co-locating with other foreign direct investment (FDI) firms. However, different aspects of local knowledge can be obtained from different local businesses. Thus, some foreign investors co-locate with FDI firms from the same country of origin, while others co-locate with foreign industry peers. We argue that, relative to industry FDI agglomeration, co...

This paper investigates the determinants of spatial concentration and entry within manufacturing across states in India. Using an unbalanced panel of 180 industries spread across 16 major Indian states over the time period 1985-2007, we estimate the effect of location (state) characteristics interacted with characteristics that make industries naturally more prone to concentrate in locations (s...

This paper presents new microeconomic evidence on the link between financial sector development, financial globalization and productivity. Using data of Mexican manufacturing firms operating in 1991, 1998 and 2000 it is found that in general, larger firms benefit from FDI in their same region of activity. However, domestic firms only enjoy productivity increases from FDI if they are relatively ...

This paper attempts to compare the overall trends and industrial patterns of inward foreign direct investment in the BRICs and explain their determinants. The overall trend of the inward FDI in the BRICs is increasing. Nevertheless, the industrial patterns of inward FDI are different from each other. In addition, there are three main factors that determinant the industrial patterns of inward fo...

In 1999, the Chinese government reported a foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow in the amount of $40.4 billion.1 This was a sharp drop from $45.6 billion in 1998, and government officials and economic analysts have begun to voice concerns about the economic effects of FDI contraction for China. Indeed, one of the alleged benefits associated with the impending Chinese membership in the World T...

Although vast normative e-government literature supports the assertion that implementation of e-government reduces transaction cost and promotes Foreign Direct Investment; empirical evidence to support this thesis is limited. Even more, there is limited attempt when studying this phenomenon to integrate e-government literature with other literatures in which major constructs of interest are roo...

This paper aims at overcoming several shortcomings of previous empirical studies on the relationship between IPR protection and FDI. First, FDI is analyzed on a sectorally and regionally disaggregated level. Second, we address the proposition that stronger IPR protection raises not only the quantity, but also the quality of FDI. Third, we check to which extent the relationship between IPR prote...

Although MiD relates to most oral diseases and aspects of dentistry, its application to caries is probably the most evolved. Carious lesions that are de mineralised and non-cavitated are now “healed” instead of surgically removed. Tyas et al.1, as part of a FDI Commission-initiated project, provided an overview of the principles and concepts of MiD, suggested techniques and presented the result...

In this paper, we address fault-tolerant control for non-linear plants. We perform soft fault detection and isolation for partial fault detection. A new method is proposed that combines model predictive controllers with fuzzy Takagi-Sugeno models. An example is presented to illustrate the functionality of the proposed approach. Keywords— Fault detection and isolation, multiple models, fuzzy Tak...