This paper examines the central role of knowledge transfer and network relationships in the context of services …

This paper reviews the economics of trade policy in financial services, highlighting differences between trade across … efficiency, quality, and variety of financial services and by encouraging improvement of financial regulations and practices …

Canada’s trade in commercial services appears inconsistent with what manufacturing-oriented Heckscher-Ohlin theory … predicts. Canada’s services trade is overwhelmingly intra-industry, involving countries whose factor proportions and demand … trade in commercial services is likely welfare enhancing, with gains greater within trade arrangements and entities such as …

This research takes up the proposal for the analysis of the innovation process in enterprises of tourist services in a …

service firms in 2004-2009. Firms that introduced new services or marketing techniques experienced stronger growth. Process …

sample. However, this positive significant effect corresponds to the high-tech sector and services, while the effect is not …

The share of developing countries in exports of world services increased from 15% in 2000 to 21% in 2011. Interestingly …, in many of the developing economies, the growth in services exports is derived from not just traditional services, but … also from modern, high-value, skill-intensive services. Given the rising importance of services, this paper develops a …

important supplementary mechanism to protect innovations in knowledgeintensive services. …