) competitive commercialization and the eventual replacement of incumbents, we consider a dynamic strategy involving product market … commercialization with the startup. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively … entry before switching to a cooperative commercialization strategy. Empirical evidence from the automated speech recognition …

substantial reversal to state intervention if nowadays the world was hit by a shock of the size of the Great Depression …

institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …

World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That … ratio does not appear to have changed much in the last 50 years. For the US, exports of services have recently been over 40 … services are now increasing more rapidly than exports, but not faster than goods imports.Because measures of service trade are …

Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services … trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is … small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air …

The relative price of services rises with development. A standard interpretation of this fact is that productivity … differences across countries are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories … negative income elasticity of relative prices, whereas the relative price of aggregate services is mostly driven by large …

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 …