firms in- troducing new or significantly improved products, services, or processes is more than twice as high for those that … import knowl- edge services than for non-importers (68 per cent vs. 33 per cent). Furthermore, knowledge importers experience … a larger revenue share from new products and services (18 per cent vs. eight per cent). Over the course of the previous …

. Specifically, we distinguish the effect of outsourcing of materials from services inputs. Moreover, we examine whether the impact … multinational. Our results show robust evidence for positive effects from outsourcing of services inputs for exporters, either …We investigate the impact of international outsourcing on productivity using plant level data for Irish manufacturing …

procurement increases international services outsourcing by between 1.6 and 2.5 percent for the FE and D-in-D matching estimators … boost volumes of international services vs. materials inputs. Using panel data for over 2,000 firms, we find that Web …. Although no existing work has yet reported effects for international materials outsourcing we find that Web procurement …

The possibility to outsource over the internet should revolutionize foreign outsourcing, especially for services … (UNCTAD, 2004). Our model describes materials and services input allocation from domestic vs. foreign suppliers. Allocations … change when firms outsource online due to access and competition effects. Using data for 99 firms who started outsourcing …

area of services. This is especially true in the case of Mode 3 of international services trade, namely oversea campuses …. In the case of Japan, foreign universities are/were free to open campuses in Japan to supply tertiary education services … Japan established by foreign universities to supply formal education services in Japan, they are required to satisfy the …

The paper provides a background for services trade negotiations with Japan. It summarizes various discussions on … international trade in services, the challenge of further services trade liberalization, and the rise of regional trade agreements …. It discusses the different modalities of services trade negotiations that have arisen out of the different regional and …

The paper is an industry study of the audiovisual services sector, specially the film and television industry in the … developments such as digital technology that are changing the mode of delivery and consumption of audiovisual services. The paper …

This paper examines the evolution of the EU's trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade … in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU's services trade flows under the impact of increasing … highlights the recent changes in the EU's services flows in terms of dynamics, composition, trade balance as well as patterns of …