data. The focus is on the mobility of capital and workers between the advanced European Union countries (EU15) and New … Member States (NMS) in the 1994-2005 period. The evidence points to a significant correlation between the volume of EU15's … activities in NMS and the total stock of NMS' own-migrants in the EU15 economies. Furthermore, the larger is the share of skilled …

of recent EU proposals for the services market. It shows that making more use of mutual recognition in regulation could … increase bilateral trade in commercial services among EU countries by 30% to 60% …International trade in services is hampered by non-tariff barriers that originate from national regulations. Not only …

restricts the way a service provider is allowed to supply a service across borders. Services trade agreements differentiate … comparing the latest GATS offers with the new preferential services trade agreements of the 2000s, this paper explores the …

The first of both short essays deals with two structural constraints that distinguish services markets from e … are present at the same time (synchronicity); the implication is that the consumer is a co-producer. Services branches … services market in space and time, with impacts for market functioning, productivity (capacity use) and product tradability …

-- offshore outsourcing ; business services ; locational advantages ; local impact ; Hungary ; East Central Europe …

services sector FDI of about $2 trillion, relatively evenly split between the United States, the EU-27, and regional OECD … regional services sector liberalization, threshold income levels for inward services sector FDI, upward-flowing regional … services FDI, and preferred modes of services sector investments …

service sector FDI, upward-flowing regional services FDI, and preferred modes of service sector investments … (ADB) regional members. The new transactional foreign direct investment (FDI) data are methodologically distinct from … traditional BPM5-compliant FDI data but found to yield generally comparable aggregates, when compared with the latest available …

This paper reviews the role of services in development and growth, the potential role of trade in services as a driver … of the productivity performance of sectors that use services as inputs, and the links between services policies and … domestic trade costs. Barriers to trade in services have direct as well as indirect effects on cross-border trade and …