The services sector is increasingly important for the euro area economy, but productivity growth in the sector has … stalled over the past two decades. Remaining barriers to cross-border trade in services within the EU Single Market contribute …. To remove the cross-border restrictions on services trade, we suggest combining incentives such as financial support …

This paper empirically investigates the propagation of fims' expectations within the European Union (EU). To this end …, we combine EU-wide official business survey data with world input-output data. Econometrically, we model … interdependencies in economic activities via input-output-linkages and apply space-time models with common factors. The resulting …

intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection … important intermediate services like banking and telecom and thus these industries can be instrumental to help downstream … services will further rise due to various EU-policy rooted factors. As a result, protection rates of services in individual EU …