direct investment and the endogenous productivity effect from services. The modeling framework shows that the liberalization …With the growing importance of services and foreign direct investment in services, it is important to have a framework … to analyze the impact of the liberalization of barriers to foreign direct investment in services. This paper summarizes …

the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and domestic business service providers in Kenya …. The model incorporates productivity effects in both goods and services markets endogenously, through a Dixit …-Stiglitz framework. It estimates the ad valorem equivalent of barriers to foreign direct investment based on detailed questionnaires …