Tourism is a sector of the economy in which the problems related to the jobs and necessary skills to exit the crisis are emphasized more sensitive than other sectors of the economy. This paper proposes a literature review based on the latest studies and research literature worldwide (USA,...

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts’ judgments, sometimes coming under the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers’ choices or they are conferred to the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data of the most important...

German manufacturing firms increasingly engage in service trade activities. Micro-level data show that producer service exports of German manufacturers amounted to EUR 30 billion in 2005. In particular, construction, engineering and R&D services are exported. The machinery industries and...

In this paper we compare static and dynamic features of trade in goods and trade in services at the micro level. By using data from the same country, Belgium, and by making use of a common definition of transaction, we are able to enrich the existing qualitative comparisons with quantitative...

This paper studies the offshoring of services and whether this phenomenon is linked to the international fragmentation of activities or to a shift in outsourcing to foreign rather than domestic suppliers. Analysis is performed using the National Accounting input-output tables of Spain’s...

We test the hypotheses of industry return rates either gravitating around or converging towards a common value in Taiwan and New Zealand. We adopt various econometric approaches. The results are then nested in a meta-analytic framework together with those of the past literature. Various kinds of...

El presente documento tiene como fin presentar los resultados parciales de un proceso investigativo cuyo objetivo general es identificar los determinantes del desarrollo empresarial en la región de Yopal, Casanare, dentro de la cual se enmarca el proyecto Utopía de la Universidad de La Salle....

This paper describes Latin American conditions for e-banking development, as there is intensive Internet users growth, t is essential to analyze environment and specific of this region to discover obstacles and challenges connected with Internet banking. Generally this paper shows base for...

The service supply and demand are components of the service markets. The authors deal with defining the concepts of service supply, demand, consumption need, as well as their categories in terms of several criteria. The identification and the analysis of the factors influencing the service...