Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international bspilloversQ of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers. I introduce a framework for measuring international knowledge spillovers at the firm level, and I use this framework to directly test the hypothesis t...

Model uncertainty is an important factor hindering reliability of any modelbased failure detection and identification (FDI) method. Use of joint torque sensing reduces significantly the complexity of robot modeling by excluding hardly-identifiable link dynamics from overall manipulator dynamics. Application of such model in the proposed FDI filter increases reliability of fault monitoring again...

We study a model-based approach to detect sustainable faults of photovoltaic systems. We describe models and algorithms which allow us to analyze a large amount of photovoltaic systems. Our approach is based on median regression. We assume that we know the irradiance and produced energy of a photovoltaic system. The particular challenge of the data analysis problem we study here is the possible...

This paper deals with the design of a sliding mode multiple observer (an observer based on a multiple model) allowing to estimate the state vector of a non linear dynamical system. This latter is influenced by unknown inputs which act on it through a known transmission matrix. The state estimation and consequently the output estimation can therefore be classically used for detecting and isolati...

This paper analyzes the behavior of monopoly firm serving its products to two countries. The main focus of this paper is on how the product-quality choice in different markets are related with the cost structure of the firm. First, This paper examines the effects of production and R&D costs on the product quality separately, and then discusses the general case where the both costs exists. This ...

This paper investigates the trend and characteristics of trade in services in two fertile regions where different forms of trade integration have taken place: East Asia and Latin America. To that end, the World Bank data are utilized to categorize services trade in order to put on view the national and regional positions on dynamic sectors, and to compare East Asia and Latin America in terms of...

We consider a manufacturer’s new market entry problem when it already has some established facility in its existing market. We consider two common market entry strategies: the export strategy and the foreign direct investment (FDI) strategy. In the export strategy the firm increases the capacity at its existing facility and subsequently allocates the output to the existing and the new market dy...

• Abstract. This paper re-examines the role of exchange rates as determinant of FDI. It extends the analysis to include the issue of how exchange rates determine the decision of invest in one country depending on whether the firm is deciding to invest on the country to service the local market or to invest on the country in order to re-export. This paper offers a broad literature review of the ...

This paper examines the determinants of FDI from U.S. and Japan in China using the provincial data set from 1991 to 1997. The results of the regression analyses are further compared to those of the aggregated FDI as a benchmark case. The study found various similarities and differences in the importance and the magnitudes of the determinants of FDI among three FDI sources. It is shown that both...

Does more FDI make the world a riskier place for workers? We analyze whether an increase in multinational firms’ activities is associated with an increase in firm-level employment volatility. We use a firm-level dataset for Germany which allows us to distinguish between purely domestic firms, domestic multinationals, their foreign affiliates, and foreign firms that are active in Germany. We dec...