In this paper, we examine how cross-market price restrictions impact strategic entry and pricing decisions. A … provision for universal service, requiring that advanced services be made available to rural customers at rates comparable to …

Pricing policy for any experience good faces a key tradeoff. On one hand, a price reduction increases immediate demand …

services rather than trends in industry. Britain’s productivity lead in services before World War II reflected external … under-development of services in an economy that was slow to move out of agriculture. As German agricultural employment … contracted sharply from the 1950s, catching-up occurred in services. This was aided by a sharp increase in human and physical …

services as they are for manufacturing. We use a longitudinal database for Dutch firms in the retail and hotel and catering … sectors to identify around 13,000 new-firm start-ups and 47,000 incumbents in the services and track them over subsequent … services. The results suggest that the most fundamental relationships between firm size, age, survival and growth are …

European Community (EC). Today, in every member state, services account for more production and employment than agriculture and … manufacturing combined. The growing role of services in domestic economies is the result of both demand and supply factors. On the … demand side, the major impetus has come from firms that have shifted from providing services they require `in-house' to …

The negotiations on trade in services at the WTO have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels unilaterally … has been a failure to exploit the scope built into the services agreement (GATS) for exchange of market access …