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Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on...

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Services Trade Liberalization at the Regional Level: Does Southern and Eastern Africa Stand to Gain from EPA Negotiations?

Jansen, Marion - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Given the sluggish progress in multilateral trade negotiations Southern and Eastern African negotiators are likely to focus their attention on the negotiations of Economic Partnership Agreements with the European Union. This paper analyses possible advantages and disadvantages for ACP countries...

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Services Provision and Temporary Mobility: Freedoms and Regulation in the EU

Bertola, Giuseppe; Mola, Lorenza - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

International posting of workers and mobility of self-employed service suppliers lie between outright migration and trade in goods: their regulation, for both distributional and market-correcting purposes, is not as difficult to harmonize as that of labour markets, but personal mobility is more...

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The Political Economy of Services Trade Liberalization: A Case for International Regulatory Cooperation?

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya; Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO in expanding and deepening the coverage of services liberalization commitments. This paper identifies and discusses five hypotheses that may explain the absence of dynamism: (i) technological changes allow ever more services to be...

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Trade in Services, Trade Agreements and Economic Development: A Survey of the Literature

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Since the mid 1980s a substantial amount of research has been undertaken on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU, but an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of services sector liberalization. This paper surveys the...

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Tentative First Steps: An Assessment of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Services

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is a landmark in terms of creating multilateral disciplines in virgin … transactions in services. There are two key issues that should be addressed in evaluating the GATS. First, what does it do to bind … negotiations? This paper concludes that the GATS does not score very high on either dimension. A number of suggestions are made to …

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Modes of Delivery in Services

Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a new analytical framework for both cross-border services trade and services trade through foreign affiliates, based on heterogeneous firms operating under oligopoly. This leads to direct predictions about choice of services delivery (mode of delivery) at the firm level, and about the...

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Reciprocity Across Modes of Supply in the WTO: A Negotiating Formula

Mattoo, Aaditya; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

has been a failure to exploit the scope built into the services agreement (GATS) for exchange of market access …

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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform: Re-invigorating International Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Trade and investment in services is inhibited by a range of policy restrictions, but the best offers so far in the Doha negotiations are on average twice as restrictive as actual policy. They will generate no additional market opening. Regulatory concerns help explain the limited progress. We...

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Market Structure in Services and Market Access in Goods

Francois, Joseph; Wooton, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We examine interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a linkage between service-sector competition and goods trade, one supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 OECD countries vis-à-vis 69 exporters. This points to...

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