2002. In addition, the adoption of new e-business technologies by firms creates opportunities to conduct innovation, either …

. The business services industry has an important role in the national innovation system and in knowledge spillovers to … other industries. The innovation contribution of business services to the rest of the economy may countervail the effect of …

and services comparable across areas, is a difficult task. In this paper we attempt to construct a cost-of-living index …

In this paper we develop an index for comparing the cost of doing business across several metropolitan areas in the U ….S. Such indices can be used as leading indicators of metropolitan economic growth. To create the index, we first identify …-based and pooled techniques to derive such an index. The index's variance decreases as the time horizon for which it is used …

index. The governance index is computed as the weighted average of principal components of the standardized governance … therefore estimate the governance index on the basis of five indicators, such as crime rates, riots, industrial disputes and … strikes, Gini index, and debt-income ratio. Then we propose to explore whether the quality of governance determines …

rate, corruption perception indices, rule of law index, social capital and trust variables, formal and informal rules …