pharmacies, and the indirect impact on the physicians who provide related services. We study the case of Belgium, which is …

. Sharing of business services by headquarters and of sector-specific intermediates by production plants within a city reduces … configuration where cities specialize by function, with headquarters from different sectors and business services clustered in a few …

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business … business services. Following a general discussion, we calibrate a numerical general-equilibrium simulation model to a situation … in which both trade and foreign investment in services are initially banned to technically infeasible. We then compute …

, low average wages, high level of business services and agglomeration of headquarters in the same sector of activity. …

This paper studies the recent spatial development of India. Services, and to a lesser extent manufacturing, are … services have tended to grow fastest in medium-density locations, such as Silicon Valley. India's experience is not common to …

empirical puzzles in the trade-wages debate and can also explain the bimodal growth in services (high and low skill) observed in …

of services in GDP, employment and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition … economies with respect to services intensity and services policy reforms. We find that reforms in policies towards financial and … infrastructure services, including telecommunications, power and transport, are highly correlated with inward FDI. Controlling for …

Advances in communication technology make it possible for workers in India to supply business services to head offices …. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services …

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 …