arm’s length. The model further implies that firms are more likely to offshore when frictions in the provision of services …

A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …

have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …

The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets …. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the … manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive effects are both on firms directly offshoring services and on non …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to …' productivity. -- services liberalization ; productivity ; input-output tables ; competition …

information technology and R&D services in a wide range of industries, India has tremendous potential to integrate with RPN and …