Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services … trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is … small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air …

trademarks) and headquarter services (administration, management and advertising) partly reflects mispriced affiliate trade …

-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper … discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in particular on channels through which openness to trade in … services may increase productivity at the level of the economy as a whole, industries and the firm. The authors explore what …

A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …