globalization and high pace of technological processes,achieved by information technology, increase the pressure on private andpublic organizations to compete for providing new services. the servicesector accounts for the largest employment growth and value-added indeveloped economies. therefore, extensive studies on developing newservices and their success factors have become more important. i...

T his paper aims to understand the structure and determinants of international bank l ending among APEC economies. Specifically, this paper first aims to analyze whether Australia Canada Japan Chinese Taipei and the United States, which are the only APEC members for which international borrowing data are available, tend to lend more intensively to other APEC members than to non-APEC countries ....

It is well known that most of the largest economies in the world are becoming information economies (understood as an aggregate of economic activities that produce information outputs) in terms of value added (GNP) and jobs. Sweden is among the most advanced adopters of ICT and represents therefore a suitable empirical base for the investigation of an information economy. The data reveal that t...

This paper evaluates various channels through which foreign technology diffuses to the manufacturing sector of selected developing economies. These economies carry out very little (if any) own R&D so they rely on foreign technology to a much larger extent than developed economies. We investigate the direct effect of foreign R&D, as well as technology embodied in imports of intermediate and capi...

â â â â  kangwon national university, south korea â â yonsei university, south korea â â  [1] â  kangwon national university, south korea â â â  abstract â  t his paper aims to understand the structure and determinants of international bank l ending among apec economies. specifically, this paper first aims to analyze whether australia canada japan chinese taipei and the united states, which are...