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 …

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

This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms … country. We also argue that non-cooperation in network related services trade may involve more extreme retaliation than … liberalization in network related services become larger than from liberalization in goods. An empirical implementation of global …

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 …

a package to other firms. Regulators favor pools as a means to encourage innovation: Pools are expected to reduce … the effects of a patent pool on innovation. Contrary to theoretical predictions, the sewing machine pool appears to have … discouraged patenting and innovation, in particular for the members of the pool. Data on stitches per minute, as an objectively …

We empirically examine the effects of industry consortia on the coordination of innovation strategies of the members … enables influencing peers' innovation strategies related to compatibility standards …

that pools encourage innovation in pool technologies, albeit at the cost of innovation in substitutes. Empirical evidence … innovations by new firms for a historical pool in the sewing machine industry (1856-1877) to examine effects on innovation …. Contrary to theoretical predictions, this analysis suggests that pools may discourage innovation in pool technologies and shift …