This paper discusses what could be done to expand services trade and investment through a multilateral agreement in the … World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of …

Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as …, this paper reveals some novel patterns. First, although services firms have on average a much lower propensity to export … findings suggest that the growing faith in services as a source of both trade and innovative dynamism may not be misplaced. …