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How Do the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" Characteristics of Regional Service Agreements Affect Trade in Services?
Zhou, Nianli - 2014
Preferential liberalization of trade in services is a central feature of the new regionalism. "GATS-Plus" and "GATS … different effect of the "GATS-Plus" and "GATS-Minus" components of RTAs on the service trade . The results of the empirical … "service" RTA) can increase the bilateral service trade between the trading-pairs significantly. (2) almost all the "GATS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458114
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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs involving ASEAN Countries
Banda, O. G. Dayaratna - 2005
We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467453
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Trade Integration and Risk Sharing
Kraay, Aart - 2002
What are the effects of increased trade in goods and services on the trade balance? We study the effects of reducing transport costs in a Ricardian model with complete asset markets. Trade integration has three effects on the structure of the economy: a reduction in the home bias in consumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469911
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Issues in the Uruguay Round
Baldwin, Robert E. (contributor);  … - 1988
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000926461
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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions
Kravis, Irving B. - 1983
A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S … entail might provide a modest counterweight on the side of liberalization in a world in which restrictions are growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477978
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Foreign Affiliate Sales and Trade in Both Goods and Services
Li, Chunding - 2010
(1994) and the GATS there is an incompatibility between measures of world trade in goods and services. Measures of goods … trade reflecting GATT (1994) are restricted to trade that crosses borders. Service trade, however, under GATS mode 3 … statistical bases for measures. One of them is the present mixed GATT and GATS basis; another is trade including foreign affiliate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462384
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Pollution and International Trade in Services
Levinson, Arik - 2009
Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is small, for two reasons. First, services account for...
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Measuring International Trade in Services
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2006
World trade in services has recently been a little under $US2 trillion, about a quarter of world trade in goods. That …
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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is It Justified?
Amiti, Mary - 2004
The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467881
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Cables, Sharks and Servers : Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market
Eichengreen, Barry - 2016
global turnover of London, the world's largest trading venue, by as much as one-third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456788