Targeting FDI

Choice for FDI and Post-FDI Productivity

We highlight the difference between the service sector and the manufacturing sector in regard to the determinants for a firm to start FDI and the productivity growth it achieves. This paper analyzes two questions: (1) whether a certain level of productivity explains a Japanese firm’s choice to be a multinational firm (by starting FDI), and (2) how the productivity of such a multinational firm c...

Chinese FDI

Over the last century, Chinese Foreign Direct Investments have made great impacts on African countries. Large amounts of FDI from China has flooded into African infrastructure investments, targeting key sectors such as telecommunications, transportation, power plants, and port refurbishments. No doubt China treats itself as an equal and a generous partner of African countries, yet not an uncont...

Benchmarking FDI Opportunities

Distributional Effects of FDI

This paper provides a computable general equilibrium analysis of the medium to long-run impact of FDI inflows on poverty and income distribution in Bolivia. The CGE analysis addresses several important transmission channels which have been neglected in the empirical literature by (i) investigating the impact of FDI inflows on incomes of urban and rural households; (ii) taking into account infor...

Observer Based Fdi/ftc

The paper presents a model-based design method for fault diagnosis (detection and isolation) and fault-tolerant control (FDI/FTC).The design is based on pole placement of input-output models. Furthermore, the design of an output feedback controller is divided into two independent design tasks: a generalized state and fault observer design and a fault feedforward and state feedback design.