Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business … business services. Following a general discussion, we calibrate a numerical general-equilibrium simulation model to a situation … in which both trade and foreign investment in services are initially banned to technically infeasible. We then compute …

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by … the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services … sector liberalization. The literature touches on important linkages between trade and FDI in services and the general pattern …

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the … impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This Paper … aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the facts. The results show that although service outsourcing has been …

multilateral agreement to liberalize trade in services. This paper explores the extent to which initial negotiating positions of … developing countries are reflected in the draft General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) that has emerged from the Uruguay …

We examine the role of services in the structure of production and trade. Working with a cross-country sample of 17 … input-output structure of production. Expansion of services is related to expansion of private sector intermediate services … the structure of production rather than to outsourcing or splintering processes. The embodied service component of exports …

services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross …

In this paper, we present for the first time a qualitative and quantitative comparison between trade in services and … between services and goods trade at firm level, suggesting that heterogeneous models of trade can be a good starting point for … the analysis of trade in services. On the other hand, we highlight dramatic dierences in quantitative terms and in some …

exports and imports of services across sectors characterized by different tasks changes patterns. Occupational tasks changes … underlines the special role that proximity between demand and supply plays for services. Interestingly, we find exactly the …