Introduction / Marshall Reinsdorf and Matthew Slaughter -- Challenges in measuring trade in services -- Measuring international trade in services / Robert E. Lipsey -- Comment: J. David Richardson -- Improved measures of U.S. international services: the cases of insurance, wholesale and retail...

Quantitative measures of international exchange have historically focused on trade in tangible products or capital. However, services have recently become a larger portion of developed economies and international trade, and will only increase in the future. In International Trade in Services and...

A wide range of empirical studies has analysed exporter performance, especially the relationship between exports and productivity in the manufacturing sector. By contrast, a detailed investigation of the services sector has remained largely neglected. To close this gap, this paper focuses on the...