The importance of services trade and "servicification" of economic activity has grown in countries overtime. However … total services trade in 2005 and 2.9% in 2017. While trade costs for services have been computed in the literature, barriers … specific to Mode 4 services trade have not yet been quantified. We contribute by constructing an index to quantify regulatory …

More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank’s database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … levels of preexisting trade, and restrictive services regulations are more likely candidates for regulatory convergence. Our …

More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … levels of preexisting trade, and restrictive services regulations are more likely candidates for regulatory convergence. Our …

With an increasing number of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) covering trade in services, we explore the impact of … PTAs on services trade. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper in this literature that endogenizes the … impact of services preferentialism in estimating the trade effect and also looks at its anticipation effects. We also add to …

The proliferation of services trade agreements and improved availability of data on bilateral services trade flows has … resulted in a growing literature on the theoretical and empirical assessment of services trade effects. In this paper, we … revisit the trade effects of services agreements using an updated database on bilateral services trade flows from the OECD and …

Existing work examining the trade effect of commonwealth membership does not account for sample selection, unobserved …. Unlike earlier work, we also consider services trade and assemble a much larger sample of trading partners (242 x 242, over … results, ceteris paribus and on average. Our analyses on the determinants of intra-commonwealth trade suggest the positive …

external exposure on the labor market in Switzerland. We exploit exogenous exchange rate movements to identify trade …

services trade agreements (STAs), the paper derives ones on the stringency of unilateral services provision- a general services … trade restrictiveness. For instance, one of the hypotheses is that services trade restrictiveness is endogenous, and it is … partners' general, unilateral services trade restrictiveness is more similar to theirs. These and other hypotheses are …

The proliferation of preferential trade agreements in services (STAs) and improved availability of data on bilateral … services trade flows has resulted in a growing literature on the theoretical and empirical assessment of services trade effects …. However, this literature has not considered the different types of provisions found in STAs while estimating the trade effects …