<link rid="b4">Bernard and Jones (1996)</link> have previously argued that similarity in the technologies used by firms in the service sector helps to explain evidence of absolute convergence at the cross-country level. This paper searches for convergence at the firm level using data for the UK service sector over...

The last twenty years have seen an extraordinary number of trade liberalization episodes in developing countries. Some have been voluntary, most have been policy conditioned under the aegis of the Bretton Woods agencies. This paper begins by setting out the background to these trade reform...

Gravity models have been extensively used to evaluate the trade effects of regional trading arrangements, (RTAs), especially over the last 10 years or so. Questions addressed by researchers include, is there a regional bias to trade and are there identifiable trade affects attributable to RTAs?...