Date: 2023
Type: Article
Mode 4 restrictiveness and services trade
Review of world economics, 2023, Vol. 159, pp. 757-786
SHINGAL, Anirudh, Mode 4 restrictiveness and services trade, Review of world economics, 2023, Vol. 159, pp. 757-786
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74950
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Despite the importance of services trade and “servicification” of economic activity, “Mode 4” accounted for only 2.9% of total services trade in 2017. While existing literature has estimated services trade costs, effects of barriers to Mode 4 trade have not yet been quantified. We contribute by constructing a composite index to quantify regulatory barriers to the movement of service suppliers, using qualitative information embedded in OECD data on services trade restrictions, and examining its relationship with services trade. Structural gravity estimates suggest that a one standard deviation rise in Mode 4 restrictiveness reduces bilateral services exports by 8%; the adverse effects are even larger for intermediate services exports. Results using aggregate data show that the constructed index is negatively correlated with services imports delivered non-digitally alluding to complementarities between modes of supply and cross-modal “effects”. Moreover, there is considerable heterogeneity in the results across services sectors in both aggregate and bilateral analysis.
Additional information:
Published online: 24 September 2022
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/74950
Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/s10290-022-00481-2
ISSN: 1610-2878; 1610-2886
Publisher: Springer
Sponsorship and Funder information:
This article was published Open Access with the support from the EUI Library through the CRUI - Springer Transformative Agreement (2020-2024)
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