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Comerţul cu servicii al ue sub impactul globalizării şi al crizei economice
Ghibuţiu, Agnes; Oehler-Șincai, Iulia Monica - 2010
This paper examines the evolution of the EU's trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU's services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011461761
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Services versus goods trade: Are they the same?
Ariu, Andrea - 2012
In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and trade in goods at firm level for the same country. We focus first on static features of trade such as participation rates, firms’ characteristics, heterogeneity, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506757
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Prospects of Services Trade Liberalization in Japan-RP Bilateral Agreement
Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2004
The paper provides a background for services trade negotiations with Japan. It summarizes various discussions on … based on existing multilateral and regional commitments of the Philippines and Japan, and suggests a few key points in … different services sector that can help the Philippines benefit more from a bilateral trade agreement with Japan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429722
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Japan’s Education Services Imports: Branch Campus or Subsidiary Campus?
Hamanaka, Shintaro - 2012
. In the case of Japan, foreign universities are/were free to open campuses in Japan to supply tertiary education services … Japan established by foreign universities to supply formal education services in Japan, they are required to satisfy the … Japan actually obtained a formal school status. Moreover, program at the campuses in Japan were not regarded as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507535
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Audiovisual Services Sector: Can the Philippines Follow "Bollywood?"
Lantin, Angelina M.; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2005
The paper is an industry study of the audiovisual services sector, specially the film and television industry in the Philippines. It discusses the importance of the sector in the economy and employment, its strengths and weaknesses, regulations that affect it, and the competitive forces that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429823
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Erholung durch Reisefreiheit: Warum Südeuropa in der Corona-Krise den Tourismus braucht
Schrader, Klaus; Laaser, Claus-Friedrich - 2020
Die Beschränkung der Reisefreiheit und weitreichende Infektionsschutzmaßnahmen im Zuge der Covid-19-Pandemie stellt besonders in den Urlaubsländern Südeuropas die Existenz vieler Tourismusbetriebe in Frage, was die wirtschaftliche Krise in den tourismusintensiven EU-Staaten verschärft. Die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290502
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Trade in services: IT and task content
Ariu, Andrea; Mion, Giordano - 2010
In this paper we investigate the determinants of the dramatic increase in services tradability focusing on the extensive margin of the phenomenon. We use balance sheet and firm-level service trade information over the period 1995-2005 provided by the National Bank of Belgium and we merge it with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506720
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The problem of negatives generated by the commodity technology model in input-output analysis: A review of the solutions
ten Raa, Thijs; Rueda-Cantuche, José - In: Journal of Economic Structures 2 (2013), pp. 1-14
Many economic models (e.g., computable general equilibrium models, econometric input-output models) revolve around a matrix of technical coefficients. However, these matrices can be estimated only once every 5 years as long as they are calculated from input-output tables and these are only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011552000
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What Follows Tertiarisation? Structural Change and the Role of Knowledge-based Services
Peneder, Michael; Kaniovski, Serguei; Dachs, Bernhard - 2001
The rise of the service economy has been the predominant pattern of structural change in the twentieth century. This article investigates the driving forces behind the recent stages of this development. Focusing on international input - output data from the early 1970s to the 1990s, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435074
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Restructuring the Austrian Energy System: An Extended Technology Wedges Approach
Kettner, Claudia; Kletzan-Slamanig, Daniela; Köppl, Angela - 2011
EU climate and energy policy defines ambitious objectives for the EU member countries requiring a fundamental change of energy systems. This paper suggests basing the analysis of restructuring options on energy services instead of energy flows. In order to provide the energy services in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435325