-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper … discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in … services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper … discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in … services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper … discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in … services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

long-run growth effect for countries taking part in the outsourcing process of producer services exists. The growth effect … obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth … to trade commercial- and specialized business services on long-run growth by applying a dynamic panel data approach to …

outsourcing and growth can be analyzed. In the model, the skilled-labor abundant North is the only innovator in the world … a rise in outsourcing by Northern firms. In addition, more resources are shifted to R&D in the North, and the growth … rate in the world increases. The model has several empirically consistent implications, such as rising relative wages of …