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 …

Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

Trade in services is often hampered by domestic administrative barriers, even when countries are members of the same …-dimensional fixed effects. On average, the reform increased intra-EU trade in targeted services by about 40%. This effect of the reform …

Trade in services is often hampered by domestic administrative barriers, even when countries are members of the same … effects. On average, the reform increased intra-EU trade in targeted services between a lower bound of 27 percent and an upper …

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 …

professional regulation cannot be transferred without restrictions to intra-European trade with professional services in the … the Member States of the EU within a gravity framework. If the OECD "Services Trade Restrictiveness Index for cross …-border trade in services" (OECDSTRI) is used to capture remaining regulatory differences between the Member States, there is no …

While services account for almost 80% of GDP in the United States and a growing share of global trade, regulatory … barriers to services trade around the world are still high. Using a hypothetical liberalisation scenario, this paper assesses … the potential reduction of trade costs that could be achieved in 17 US services sectors. The analysis relies on the OECD …