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Regulation and Barriers to Trade in Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Cave, Martin E. - 2009
Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data …-processing to be performed anywhere in the world. They thus become tradable and subject to the laws of comparative advantage. A good … to create a level playing field between the country's former telecommunications monopolist and foreign competitors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158458
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At Your Service! The Role of Tax Havens in International Trade with Services
Hebous, Shafik - 2015
This paper documents that tax havens play a prominent role in international service trade and investigates the nature of this role. We employ a firm-level dataset with detailed information about service trade and foreign affiliates for virtually all multinational firms in Germany, which allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019849
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Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
Rising current account and merchandise trade imbalances marked the years before the global financial and economic crisis. These imbalances either contributed to or precipitated the crisis and to the extent that they create systemic risks, it is desirable that they be reduced. There are many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315818
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Will the U.S. And EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2014
Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local … telecommunications policies in the U.S. and EU? Based on a survey of the relevant U.S. and EU related economics literature the current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051376
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Capital Structure and Regulation in U.S. Local Telephony : An Exploratory Econometric Study
Resende, Marcelo - 2021
The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316358
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Shift Working and Trade in Labor Services with Time Zone Differences
Kikuchi, Toru - 2011
Using a two-factor (labor and capital), two-good (shift-working and non shiftworking commodities) model with two countries (Home and Foreign) which are located in different time zones, we highlight the impact of trade in labor services (via communication networks) on the comparative advantage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121206
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Why Do People Dislike Low-Wage Trade Competition with Posted Workers in the Service Sector?
Calmfors, Lars - 2012
The issue of low-wage competition in services trade involving posted workers is controversial in the EU. Using Swedish survey data, people's attitudes are found to be more negative to such trade than to goods trade. The differences depend on both a preference for favouring social groups to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104832
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Cross-Border and Foreign Affiliate Sales of Services : Evidence from German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106910
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Portability of Social Benefits International Trade in Services : Some Reflections
Valdes-Prieto, Salvador - 2014
In this fascinating new field, this paper offers some reflections on portability of social benefits, and tries to identify promising research topics. These reflections are organized in three sections. The first analyzes the channels that underpin the positive value of portability of social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064652
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Dark Costs, Missing Data : Shedding Some Light on Services Trade
Anderson, James E. - 2015
A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to flexibly infer border barriers are often missing for services, we derive a novel methodology for projecting output data. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011441