"The authors analyze the extent to which the EU-15 and 16 transition economies used the WTO General Agreement on Trade … policy stances over time. While there is substantial variance across transition economies on both actual policies and GATS … GATS less relevant as a commitment device for a subset of transition economies. But for many of the non-EU accession …

share of services in GDP, employment, and international transactions. However, large differences exist across transition … services policy reform are statistically significant explanatory variables for the post-1990 economic performance of transition …