level. Services play a core role in advanced economies, both from a quantitative and a strategic point of view … been simultaneously assessed that services display lower productivity levels and growth rates than other economic … period between 1980 and 2007. The results partially refute traditional knowledge on the productivity of services. Contrary to …

costs of trading goods and have also made an increasing share of services tradeable. We propose a tractable micro … services which exert an agglomerative force and trade costs and comparative advantage which act as dispersion forces. …