The two new manuals of the National Accounts (SNA 2009) and of the Balance of Payments (IMF 2009) are implementing many new features that protract innovations firstly introduced in 1993. Among those, the paper focuses on the treatment of non financial services. The first section of the paper...

Cet article présente une perspective d’économiste sur les contours de la prestation de services, dans la perspective du commerce de services. Il est l’occasion de faire un tour d’horizon rapide des connaissances disponibles sur le commerce de services dans l’Union Européenne (UE). Il...

Métamorphoses du statut de la concurrence dans les traités européens

A new definition of service has been proposed by Hill (1999) and endorsed by SNA and BOP last updates. The paper studies its consequences for industrial classifications, such as ISIC, and on the respective shares of goods and services producing sectors. The first section reminds the main...

The paper focuses on the impact of the Full Market Opening in postal services on the territorial cohesion. In the first section the paper recalls the specificities of the sector and the distance so far covered by deregulation. It underlines the reasons that raise worries. In the second section...

The paper pertains to the recent extension of price and production statistics to health, social assistance services and education. In the first part, it is underlined that using net prices instead of gross prices, as it has been decided for the European harmonised consumer price index, is...

Based on a gravity analysis, the paper shows that there is a significant relationship between goods and services exports, at least as they are measured in the current account of the BOP. Truly enough several recent works have already, but incidentally, shed some light on this issue. The paper is...

The paper focuses on the issue of cross-border trade in services. It argues that its current understanding may be quite misleading. First, bearing in mind Hill?s [1999] services definition, the paper discusses the extent of services-producing activities. It stresses that ?services? exporting...