This project is sponsored by:

Contact:

Judith Harris

Birmingham Business School
Edgbaston Park Road
Birmingham B15 2TT

Email:

servicegap@contacts.bham.ac.uk

This project is funded by the European Commission, Research Directorate General as part of the 7th Framework Programme, Theme 8: Socio-Economic Sciences and Humanities.

Grant Agreement no: 244 552

Stay up-to-date

This is where we keep you informed about events related to Servicegap.

SERVICEGAP's mid-term meeting will be held in Dublin in June 2011.  A call for papers has been issued to project partners, and the responses so far show that there will be lots of interesting work being presented!

Workshop on Financial Markets and Financial Stress: Impact on Services

This was a joint INDICSER-SERVICEGAP event, held at CEPS on March 8th 2011. 

Recent research suggests that much of the gap in EU-US productivity growth was due to developments in services sectors. The EC seventh framework programme has funded two projects INDICSER and SERVICEGAP, that focus on aspects of service sector performance. This workshop considered specifically financial markets and impacts of financial crises on performance at the sector level, with presentations from representative of the University of Birmingham, University of Groningen, and NIESR.

Kick-off meeting, June 2010

The project kick-off meeting was held at Birmingham Business School on 14 and 15 June 2010.  The meeting was a great success, with many productive discussions on the work to be done on the various workpackages.  A full report on the meeting will be available here shortly.