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Integrating into the Global Economy through Services. The Case of Romania

GHIBUTIU, AGNES; GHIBUTIU, ANDRA - In: Global Economic Observer 2 (2014) 1, pp. 181-191

Services represent a most important and dynamic frontier of international trade and investment. The steady expansion of trade in services and its relative resilience in the recent crisis, coupled with its key role in global production networks and its increasing potential in attracting...

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Regional Development in the Creative Age

Sorin, Mazilu; Vasile, Horodnic Adrian - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 1284-1287

This article brings into question the increasing importance of creativity as a factor for regional development. For this purpose, it is briefly discussed the fine connection between culture, creativity and regional development and how creativity can increase the development of a region and...

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Bilateralism in services trade: is there fire behind the (BIT-)smoke?

Adlung, Rudolf; Molinuevo, Martin - 2008

Far less attention is given to the even more rapid proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and their overlap with obligations assumed by WTO Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). About 60 per cent of world foreign investment stocks are in services and,...

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The Future of UK Services Trade Post-Brexit: Unlikely to Be Bright

Pindyuk, Olga - 2019

Trade in services was overshadowed by trade in goods in the Brexit debate, undeservingly so as services account for almost half of the UK cross-border exports and the EU is a major market for UK services exporters. Leaving the EU Single Market in services will cause increased regulatory costs of...

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Services sectors' agglomeration and its interdependence with industrial agglomeration in the European Union

Krenz, Astrid - 2010

Services sectors' agglomeration in the European Union, its development over time, its driving factors and dynamic tendencies will be empirically investigated in this study. Locational gini coefficients are computed taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 European countries covering 22 services sectors over...

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Industry Structure and Productivity Growth: Panel Data Evidence for Germany from 19712000

Fuchs, Thomas - 2005

The paper presents a detailed industry-level productivity analysis (52 industries) for the effects of industry structure on TFP growth for Germany from 1971 until 2000. The analysis builds on a theory by Acemoglu et al. (2003) relating industry structure and productivity growth of an industry....

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Integrating south and southeast Asia through services value chain: The case of India and Thailand

Mukherjee, Arpita; Goyal, Tanu M. - 2015

Liberalisation and technological developments have led to the fragmentation of production and the emergence of the concept of global value chains. This has ushered in the role of services for linking the production network, resulting in a greater composition of services in the value of tradable....

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Productivity and trade growth in services: How services helped power factory Asia

Shepherd, Ben - 2019

This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of developing Asian economies in manufacturing and services over the 1995-2011 period. We find that the growth in service exports was nearly as rapid as that in manufacturing over...

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Services sectors\' agglomeration and its interdependence with industrial agglomeration in the European Union

Krenz, Astrid - Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the … - 2010

Services sectors\' agglomeration in the European Union, its development over time, its driving factors and dynamic tendencies will be empirically investigated in this study. Locational gini coefficients are computed taking EU-KLEMS data for 14 European countries covering 22 services sectors over...

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High Employment with Low Productivity? The Service Sector as a Determinant of Economic Development

Breitenfellner, Andreas; Hildebrandt, Antje - In: Monetary Policy & the Economy (2006) 1, pp. 110-135

Whether measured in terms of employment or value added, the service sector by far dominates the economies of …'s contribution to the development of employment and productivity between 1983 and 2003 illuminates the prevailing productivity gap … processes points to an employment potential in the tertiary sector that has not yet been fully utilized. The study further …

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