This paper examines the effect of trade liberalization on foreign direct investment (FDI) in nontradable, producer services which play a supporting role in the production, trade, and distribution of final tradables goods.. It shows both theoretically and empirically that trade liberalization can...

"This paper employs a 52-sector, small, open-economy computable general equilibrium model of the Tanzanian economy to assess the impact of the liberalization of regulatory barriers against foreign and domestic business service providers in Tanzania. The model incorporates productivity effects in...

Given the growing importance of commitments to foreign investors in services in regional trade agreements, it is important to develop applied general equilibrium models to assess the impacts of liberalization of barriers to multinational service providers. This paper develops a 55 sector applied...