This paper empirically investigates the importance of various economic factors in determining debt servicing capacity of borrowing countries. The paper builds on earlier work by Frank and Cline (1971) and Dhonte (1975) who tried to identify empirically the more important factors. Using logit analysis and significance tests, this paper suggests several factors which are important determinants of...

Most modern integrative processes related to the automation of production facilities do not bring expected increase in efficiency. This paper is devoted complex use integration technologies during combination management systems facility process and an enterprise as a whole. It obvious that organization this kind work, various difficulties arise, main which are discussed recommendations for thei...

A shared control approach is proposed to reveal the synergies of visual servoing and telepresence in a robotic on-orbit servicing scenario. Both methods, visual servoing and telepresence, have their respective strengths and are subject to challenges for the task at hand. In a shared control approach, the advantages of a human operator in the loop, its ability to react and adapt to unanticipated...

We consider a model of tax compliance, in which the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) services as well as audits taxpayers as in the real world. Taxpayers are uncertain about whether their incomes are eligible for deduction or exemption and may seek advice from the IRS’s provided taxpayer service to mitigate the uncertainty. It is shown that: (i) depending on the size of taxpayer service, taxpayer...