Online appendix for the Review of Economic Dynamics article

Multinational production (MP) can lead to large gains through international technology sharing. However, empirical evidence suggests that geography matters for MP: Affiliate sales fall in distance from the headquarters. We introduce intrafirm trade into a standard model of exports and MP and...

We formalise and present an innovative general approach for developing complex system models from survey data by applying Bayesian Networks. The challenges and approaches to converting survey data into usable probability forms are explained and a general approach for integrating expert knowledge...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect of rural finance on industrial integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Design/methodology/approach: Using household-level data collected by Third National Agricultural Census and the...

Timely decision making is critical in today’s competitive business world and in recent times, data warehousing has been employed by numerous companies to satisfy the needs of accurate and timely information. Data warehousing has traditionally been employed for financial and customer...

In this paper, Statistical Activity Cost Analysis (SACA) is used to identify the interaction of mutually dependent physical and financial aspects of a fixed asset-like system configuration. The novelty of the approach is, having established a rational description of the uncertainty inherent in...

To integrate condition monitoring and reliability analysis with asset life-cycle management, a general-purpose asset health assessment system architecture is being developed. This system will assist management and maintenance staff to make decisions based on condition and reliability data,...

Lifetime estimation is significant in engineering asset management. However, the estimate of lifetime or failure time could be misleading as it may not reveal the real value. Therefore, confidence intervals need to be built to quantify the prediction uncertainty. For the Gamma process, which is...