The main objective of this paper is to analyse trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous … identified in the common trade classification. The first contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based … on the 2007 Harmonized System classification of international trade. Using these commodity groups, we analyse trade flows …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …

Trade in health products has been flourishing in recent years as the demand for better health has been growing … throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … availability of health-related products such as pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and medical equipment. The case for liberalizing trade …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

The main objective of this paper is to analyse trade flows and tariff policies of health products. Compared to previous … identified in the common trade classification. The first contribution is thus to construct three groups of health products based … on the 2007 Harmonized System classification of international trade. Using these commodity groups, we analyse trade flows …