services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are … firm growth, survival, size and age. While these studies have resulted in findings that are sufficiently consistent as to … relationships between firm age and size on the one hand, and survival and growth on the other may, in fact, not be the same in …

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 … all fast-growing developing economies. The spatial growth pattern of China looks more similar to that in the U.S. than to …

regressors commonly used in the growth literature, we find that measures of services policy reform are statistically significant … of services in GDP, employment and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition … economies with respect to services intensity and services policy reforms. We find that reforms in policies towards financial and …

Most conventional accounts of India’s recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the … liberalization of 1991. This Paper demonstrates that the transition to high growth occurred around 1980, a full decade before … economic liberalization. We investigate a number of hypotheses about the causes of this growth – favourable external …

services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross …

In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and … entry, exit, survival and growth strategy in foreign markets. On the one hand, our results reveal qualitative similarities … between services and goods trade at firm level, suggesting that heterogeneous models of trade can be a good starting point for …

exports and imports of services across sectors characterized by different tasks changes patterns. Occupational tasks changes … underlines the special role that proximity between demand and supply plays for services. Interestingly, we find exactly the …

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services …) technological changes allow ever more services to be traded cross-border unaffected by policy; (ii) strong incentives to pursue …

Since the mid 1980s a substantial amount of research has been undertaken on trade in services. Much of this is inspired … services sector liberalization. This paper surveys the literature, focusing on contributions that investigate the determinants … of international trade and investment in services, the potential gains from greater trade (and liberalization) and …

At the same time as regional agreements to liberalize trade in services were being pursued by OECD countries, services … relationship between regional agreements and the draft General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), negotiated under the auspices … group preferences influencing the choice between alternative institutional arrangements to liberalize trade in services …