Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the increasing importance of MNE networks. These hypotheses are tested by employing a cross-section framework, which uses OECD input-output table data, and an analysis,...

The globalization of market has brought considerable foreign goods to Chinese consumers. The competition between domestic and foreign corporations became more and more intense during last decades. This study focuses on how consumer ethnocentrism influences the preference for domestic goods among Chinese consumers. The data were collected through questionnaire from 501 middle school students. Th...

The main purpose of this note is to pose a couple of problems which are easily formulated thought some seem to be not yet solved. These problems are of general interest for discrete mathematics including a new twig of a bough of theory of graphs i.e. a given graph compositions. The problems result from and are served in the entourage of series of exercises with hints based predominantly on Knop...