have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …

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 … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …

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 …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … Operation Survey, we find that receiving a grant almost doubles the probability that a firm introduces new goods and services to … the world while its effects on process innovation and any product innovation are relatively much weaker. Moreover, there …

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

Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services … trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is … small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air …

The relative price of services rises with development. A standard interpretation of this fact is that productivity … differences across countries are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories … negative income elasticity of relative prices, whereas the relative price of aggregate services is mostly driven by large …

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 …

services created by immigrants. This effect can attenuate downward pressure from immigrants on non-immigrants' wages, and also … benefit non-immigrants by increasing the variety of local services available. For this reason, immigrants can raise native … workers, and 62% of these jobs are in non-traded services. Immigrants appear to raise local non-tradables sector wages and to …