With the growing importance of services and foreign direct investment in services, it is important to have a framework to analyze the impact of the liberalization of barriers to foreign direct investment in services. This paper summarizes several recent papers and builds policy-based computable...

Services as a share of gross domestic product and in foreign direct investment flows have increased in importance both globally and in the transition countries of Europe and Central Asia. So has the need for both academics and policymakers to understand the impacts of services liberalization in...

Adopting a novel method of synthetic difference-in-differences (SDID), this paper examines the causal impact of the Brexit referendum on the services exports of the UK and other major services exporters. It provides a comparative analysis of, inter alia, Germany, Ireland, and the UK, and...

Adopting a novel method of synthetic difference in differences (SDID), this paper examines the causal impact of the Brexit referendum on services exports of the UK and other major services exporters. It provides a comparative analysis of the UK, Ireland and Germany, inter alia, and assesses the...

A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 countries are available on 11 of the most important services sectors in international trade. Based on these data and building on the methodology and publications supported by...