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100 1 _aStaiger, Robert W.
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245 1 4 _aThe Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements /
_cRobert W. Staiger, Alan O. Sykes.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2016.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w22960
500 _aDecember 2016.
520 3 _aThe existing economics literature on international trade agreements focuses on tariff agreements covering trade in goods, and offers an explanation for core features of the GATT. Tariffs play almost no role in services markets, however, and the existing models cannot account for the dramatically different approach to trade liberalization in agreements such as the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). We develop a model through which key features of GATS, including its emphasis on "deep integration" - sector-by-sector negotiations on behind the border policy instruments - can be understood. And we use this model to suggest that there may also be a middle ground for services trade liberalization between the GATS deep-integration approach and the traditional border-policy focused "shallow integration" approach of GATT.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aF13 - Trade Policy • International Trade Organizations
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aF23 - Multinational Firms • International Business
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aSykes, Alan O.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w22960.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w22960
856 _yAcceso en línea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w22960
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