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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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Developing Countries and the Uruguay Round Negotiations on Services

Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

developing countries are reflected in the draft General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) that has emerged from the Uruguay … objective is to discuss the potential relevance of the draft GATS for developing countries. Given that many developing countries … are pursuing regulatory reform and liberalization efforts, to what extent will signing the GATS help governments seeking …

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The Role of Services in the Structure of Production and Trade: Stylized Facts from a Cross-Country Analysis

Francois, Joseph; Reinert, Kenneth A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We examine the role of services in the structure of production and trade. Working with a cross-country sample of 17 social accounting matrices, we develop stylized facts relating upstream and downstream service linkages to incomes and the input-output structure of production. Expansion of...

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Protection and Trade in Services: A Survey

Hoekman, Bernard; Primo Braga, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper surveys the literature on trade in services, focusing on the policies that are used to restrict such trade, the gains from liberalization, and the institutional mechanisms that have been adopted in the pursuit of liberalization. It argues that technological progress and international...

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Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence From German Micro-Data

Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign-affiliate sales. We find that for...

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