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Services Policies in Transition Economies : On the European Union and the World Trade Organization as Commitment Mechanisms

Eschenbach, Felix - 2016

in Services (GATS) to commit to service sector policy reforms. They compare GATS commitments with the evolution of actual … policy stances over time. While there is substantial variance across transition economies on both actual policies and GATS … commitments, the authors find an inverse relationship between the depth of GATS commitments and the quality of actual services …

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Services Trade And Growth

Hoekman, Bernard - 2008

The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in...

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Services Trade and Growth

Hoekman, Bernard - 2016

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Services Trade and Growth

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

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Services Productivity, Trade Policy, and Manufacturing Exports

Hoekman, Bernard - 2015

This paper analyzes the linkage between services and manufacturing productivity performance, using firm-level data for over 100 developing countries. We find strong evidence for such a linkage, although the effect is small: at the average rate of services input intensity, a 10% improvement in...

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Services trade liberalization and regulatory reform : Re-invigorating international cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2011

Trade and investment in services are inhibited by a range of policy restrictions, but the best offers so far in the Doha negotiations are on average twice as restrictive as actual policy. They will generate no additional market opening. Regulatory concerns help explain the limited progress. This...

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The WTO and trade in services

Hoekman, Bernard - 2012

, services in regional integration agreements and the GATS. This book will be of immense value to scholars and practitioners … and the GATS', Journal of International Economic Law, 9 (2), June, 455-85 -- Peter C. Evans (2003), 'Strengthening WTO …? Distinguishing Domestic Regulation from Market Access in GATT and GATS', World Trade Review, 4 (2), 131-70 -- Alejandro Jara and M …

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The Political Economy of Services Trade Liberalization : A Case for International Regulatory Cooperation?

Hoekman, Bernard - 2014

Little progress has been made since the creation of the WTO on 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 allowing ever more services to be...

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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-Invigorating International Cooperation

Hoekman, Bernard - 2017

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National Tax Regulation, International Standards and the GATS : Argentina—Financial Services

Delimatsis, Panos - 2017

Can a WTO Member discriminate against foreign suppliers of services located in jurisdictions that refuse to share information with a government to permit it to determine if its nationals engage in tax evasion? Does it matter if the Member uses standards developed by an international body as the...

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