We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research … governance project. Each of the papers represents state-of-the-art research in an important area of corporate governance research …

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 …

platforms for pet-sitting services. We exploit variation in pre-merger market shares and a difference-in-differences approach to …

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

) by adding newly traded goods and services and that much of this new trade is in intermediates. I provide an extension of …

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 …

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 …

and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive … exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However, the results also show … of the services sector all have a positive association with the share of potentially offshorable "non …

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