A substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services since the mid-1980s.
Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing …

This paper investigates how countries become specialised in exporting specific producer
services, particularly financial, communication and business services. We find that a …

Top scholars synthesize and analyze scholarship on this widely used tool of policy analysis
in 27 articles, setting forth its accomplishments, difficulties, and means of implementation …

We introduce a simple but flexible analytical framework in which both trade in goods and
trade in tasks arise. We use this framework to provide versions of the gains-from-trade and …

This paper examines the impact of substantial foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in
producer service sectors on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Chilean manufacturing firms …

Working with a mix of panel data on goods and services trade for the OECD for 1994–2004,
combined with social accounts data (ie data on intermediate linkages) for 78 countries …

This new edition has been rewritten to provide an up-to-date, clear and comprehensive
account of the most important developments currently taking place in the world economy …

The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-
cost and high-quality producer services-telecommunications, transport and distribution …

The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of
increasing interest over recent decades. The innovative focus of this paper concerns the role …

Foreign producer services can provide substantial benefits for domestic firms. We build on
earlier monopolistic‐competition models of intermediate producer services in this paper …