trademarks) and headquarter services (administration, management and advertising) partly reflects mispriced affiliate trade …

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships …. This paper investigates spatial interactions for services FDI using several distance measures, including physical distance … activity remain valid for services. We also find spatial interdependence for services FDI that is generally supportive of …

suggests a set of linkages between service-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 … OECD countries vis-à-vis 69 exporters. Competition in services affects the volume of goods trade while the market structure … competition apparently matters most for exporters in smaller, poorer countries. By ignoring the structure of the domestic services …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are …

Beyond years of schooling, educational content can play an important role in the process of economic development …

possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …

I argue that whether or not a state is "predatory" hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution … of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo …