This study examines the evolution of the United States (U.S.) economy after 1999, extending our previous studies [4, 8] up to 2007. The U.S. economy has moved steadily toward services and information-intensive sectors in terms of Gross National Product (GNP), employment, and wage distribution....

AbstractThe following sections are included:SummaryIntroductionAn Overview of Trade in ServicesA brief historyGATS and a framework for services tradeCurrent trends in services tradeRise of Trade in Information-Intensive Services: Some Intuitively Plausible ExplanationsU.S. Trade in...

Trade in services has increased significantly and the United States has been a leader in services trade. The U.S. not only accounts for the largest share of world trade in private services but also runs a substantial amount of surplus in services trade. One important trend has been the rapid...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that is being applied increasingly to services. We study several different RFID applications in services to discover how this technology can be used to enhance various aspects of service delivery, and what costs and benefits arise from it. We...

Information-intensive services are being globally disaggregated as corporations respond to the pressures of increasing global competition, and take advantage of the opportunities made available by the progress of information technology and the emerging global work force. In order to globally...

This is the third of a series of research volume of papers from the Business and Information Technologies global research network. The group includes 20 partners from 16 countries, who conduct studies on the impact of new information and communication technologies on business practice, industry...

The scheduling of lot sizes in multistage production environments is a fundamental problem in many Material Requirements Planning Systems. Many heuristics have been suggested for this problem with varying degrees of success. Research to date on obtaining optimal solutions has been limited to...

Internal prices are used in practice to allocate central resources to a firms' profit centers. The fixed costs of capacity acquisitions are often included in these prices. We examine the interaction between capacity acquisition and competition when capacity is available in fixed increments. We...

This article examines time series evidence to investigate the link between exports and economic growth in Bangladesh. Using quarterly data for a period from 1976 to 2003 the article finds that industrial production and exports are cointegrated. The results of an error correction model (ECM)...