We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …

There is now a consensus that focusing on trade in services amounted to a significant paradigm shift in thinking about … it had been assumed that services are generally not tradable. Second, significant liberalization of trade in goods can … that the liberalization of services trade has not received the attention it fully deserves. Thus there are now …

Europe’s market for services is fragmented by many regulatory barriers. The Services directive proposed by the European … Commission aims to integrate national services markets by reducing these barriers. Several studies indicate that bilateral trade … and foreign direct investment in services could boost substantially. GDP and consumption could increase by 0.5% to about 1 …

Given the magnitude of services growth and its inter-linkages with other sectors of the economy, it is important to … understand the impact of services sector on other macro-economic variables. The present paper attempts to identify some of the … critical issues in India’s services-led growth and tests certain hypotheses that are currently in debate. These relate to: (a …

ABSTRACT The study analyzed the determinants of cassava farmers’ accessibility to microfinance services in Abia state …

terms of their retail and services offer. The analysis was based on data on business entities of selected branches located …

We survey India’s experience with exporting services. We show that the country’s experience is unique in that modern … tradable services are a significantly larger share of GDP than in other countries at comparable levels of economic development … a dummy variable for India. India, evidently, is a significant outlier as an exporter of services, and even more so as …

personal services) sectors display strong long-run equilibrium relationship amongst each other. These sectors also display … long-term equilibrium was found between ‘trade, hotels, transport & communication’ and ‘manufacturing’ sectors. Further …

of those 33 available tourist services and amenities in the district. …

We consider the determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and traditional services. We … whether the determinants of export growth rates and surges differ between merchandise, traditional services and modern … services and whether developing countries are different. Our findings confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for …