the more efficient production of the services and the increase in their use. From the perspective of the forest industry … the most important services for it's competitiveness are engineering services, maintenance services, computer and related … services and transportation and logistics. Services are produced by service industries themselves but increasingly also by the …

- separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on …

We establish a set of stylised facts for trade and trading firms in five market services sectors using comparable firm …-level and services data from four EU countries. Our analysis shows that exports account for much lower shares of overall sales … in the services sectors than in manufacturing. In line with this there are also fewer firms engaged in trade in the …

This report studies start-ups and entrepreneurship particularly in services. The report is largely based on a survey … entrepreneurship in services has grown the fastest and employs the most. Service and female entrepreneurship seem to be on the increase … - the survey suggests that three fourths of starting entrepreneurs are in services and four in ten are females. Both are one …

of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as …

enterprises, particularly in the domain of services. This paper argues that since these rules depend largely on the other …, liberalization of services trade, aided by negotiations under the GATS, is leading to changes in market structure and the pattern of … infrastructural services for which Article VIII of GATS is most relevant. The behaviour of dominant suppliers that often remain does …

This paper regards the regulation of intellectual property, services and investments in some preferential trade … agreements. We analyze the systematization of intellectual property, services and investment rules contained in treaties signed …

Although the flows of international trade in services remain relatively concentrated in the European Union and the … in recent years. According to IMF data, the average annual growth of services exports from the BRICS has been twice the … international trade in services. Given the rapid growth of trade in services in the BRICS, this article aims to analyze the …

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …