The practice of sourcing service inputs from overseas suppliers has been growing in response to new technologies that … have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of …

economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the probability that a firm in the manufacturing and service sectors applies for a patent during 2005–2009, but no … Operation Survey, we find that receiving a grant almost doubles the probability that a firm introduces new goods and services to …

productivity in services, especially large urban firms and in service sectors whose output is used as a manufacturing input … unappreciated is that accelerated manufacturing growth has also been accompanied by accelerated services growth. Using firm …

This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two … decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be … Salinger (2005, 2008), we develop a simple model of an advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff …

When startup innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology - initially lagging in the predominant performance … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively …

find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …

pollutants does the service sector account for even four percent of total emissions; for three of the five services account for … services are not traded. Even if we limit attention to the services that are traded across borders, the service industries most …Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services …

differences across countries are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories …The relative price of services rises with development. A standard interpretation of this fact is that productivity …. We document that many disaggregated service categories–such as transportation, communication, and finance–feature a …

and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However … investment, and the relative size of the services sector all have a positive association with the share of potentially …