Many conflicts and negotiations can be viewed as a dynamic game, where parties have no commitment power. In our model …

This paper studies the recent spatial development of India. Services, and to a lesser extent manufacturing, are … services have tended to grow fastest in medium-density locations, such as Silicon Valley. India's experience is not common to …

services rather than trends in industry. Britain’s productivity lead in services before World War II reflected external … under-development of services in an economy that was slow to move out of agriculture. As German agricultural employment … contracted sharply from the 1950s, catching-up occurred in services. This was aided by a sharp increase in human and physical …

services as they are for manufacturing. We use a longitudinal database for Dutch firms in the retail and hotel and catering … sectors to identify around 13,000 new-firm start-ups and 47,000 incumbents in the services and track them over subsequent … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …

European Community (EC). Today, in every member state, services account for more production and employment than agriculture and … manufacturing combined. The growing role of services in domestic economies is the result of both demand and supply factors. On the … demand side, the major impetus has come from firms that have shifted from providing services they require `in-house' to …

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade in services, using unique data on … firm-level exports and imports from the world's second largest services exporter, the United Kingdom (UK). We show that … only a fraction of UK firms engage in international trade in services, that trade participation varies widely across …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

, showing the importance of developments in services. We identify the transition in market services from customized, low … provided, focusing on the transition from networks to hierarchies. Four general lessons are drawn: (1) developments in services …