This study examines two key challenges in services trade research: the reliability of trade data and the measurement of non-tariff barriers, particularly the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). Using firm-level panel data from Türkiye with fixed effects, we show that international data...

The OECD intra-EEA STRI heterogeneity indices complement the newly published intra-EEA STRI's and presents indices of regulatory heterogeneity, The indices are built from assessing – for each country pair and each measure – whether or not the countries have the same regulation. For each...

The OECD Digital STRI identifies, catalogues and quantifies barriers that affect trade in digitally enabled services across 50 countries. This data provide policy makers with an evidence-based tool that helps to identify regulatory bottlenecks, design policies that foster more competitive and...

The intra-EEA Services Trade Restrictiveness Index identifies and catalogues which policy measures restrict trade within the European Economic Area (EEA) for 24 OECD EU member countries. This data complement the existing STRI, which quantifies multilateral services trade restrictiveness,...

The development of the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI), first published by the OECD in 2014, launched a fruitful period in applied research on services trade. Applied as a template to the text of trade agreements, it enabled a specific quantification of the depth of liberalization of...