...........................................................................................................................................................1 A. INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................1 B. FIRST-TIER SOFTWARE EXPORTERS: THE '3IS' ..........................................

I build a simple dynamic model of the formation of an international social network of importers and exporters. Firms can only export into markets in which they have a contact. They acquire new contacts both at random, and via their network of existing contacts. This model explains (i) the cross-sectional distribution of the number of foreign markets accessed by individual exporters, (ii) the cr...

Third-generation currency crises models argue that capital losses from exchange-rate depreciation propagate the to productive sector. To test these models, we use a firm-level dataset allows us measure mismatches around 2002 Brazilian crisis. We find that, between 2001 and 2003, firms shortly before crisis had large decreased their investment rates by 8.1 percentual points, relatively other pub...

To prevent subscriber churn, network service providers of VoD, SDV and IPTV have a pressing need to pro-actively detect, isolate and fix outages within an access network. Network induced degradations prove to be detrimental for streaming applications. This typically leads to a poor quality of experience (QoE) for subscribers. By monitoring key functional points of the access network for traces ...

Each month the U. S. Census Bureau receives from the Customs and Border Protection Service documents describing all U.S. exports over $2,500. Most exporters now file the required documents via the Automated Export System. Because of filing options, for the majority of exporters, we have no information on "low-valued" exports (LVEs), those valued at or below the exemption level of $2,500; for th...

This document defines managed objects for IP Flow Information eXport (IPFIX). These objects provide information for monitoring IPFIX Exporters and IPFIX Collectors including the basic configuration information.