Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers and their interrelationships with trade

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08-Oct-2008

M. Lesher and S. Miroudot

Foreign direct investment (FDI) represents an increasingly important dimension of international economic integration with global FDI flows growing faster than output over the past two decades.

Trade and Labour Market Adjustments

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22-Apr-2008

Samuel Hill, Molly Lesher, Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 64. This study describes recent developments in international trade and OECD labour markets and the links between them. It studies OECD labour market impacts of offshoring, trade in tasks and the integration of emerging economies in the world economy.

Market structure in the distribution sector and merchandise trade

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04-Feb-2008

Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Enrico Pinali, Massimo Geloso-Grosso

OECD Working Paper No. 68. This study explores how recent developments in the retail sector affect trade in consumer goods. It focuses on: i) internationalisation; ii) market structure; and iii) the growing market share of retailers’ private labels, using the gravity model.

Services Trade Liberalisation and Tourism Development

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30-Jan-2008

Massimo Geloso Grosso, Molly Lesher and Enrico Pinali

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 57. This study analyses the role that services trade liberalisation could play in fostering tourism growth in developing countries.

Analysis of Subsidies for Services: the Case of Export Subsidies

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30-Jan-2008

Massimo Geloso Grosso

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 66. This study presents an exploratory analysis of export subsidies in the services field. It draws from a variety of sources in an effort to provide insights into the characteristics and use of these measures.

Expanding international supply chains: The role of emerging economies in providing IT and business process services

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29-May-2007

Michael Engman

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 52.  Services offshoring remains an elusive phenomenon. This paper takes a closer look at the increasing role of China, India, the Philippines and the Czech Republic in supplying business process services and IT services to OECD markets.

Modal estimates of services barriers

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13-Apr-2007

Nora Dihel and Ben Shepherd

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 51.  This paper presents improved approaches to measurement of services barriers by using alternative weighting methods and improved econometric specifications.

Services trade and domestic regulation

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14-Feb-2007

Henk Kox and Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås

Working Paper No. 49.  This paper argues that regulatory measures affect the fixed cost of entering a market as well as the variable costs of servicing that market.

Business services, trade and costs

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13-Dec-2006

Molly Lesher & Hildegunn Nordås

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 46.  This paper analyses the role of business services in selected OECD and non-OECD economies with a comprehensive, quantitative cross-country analysis of how the manufacturing and business services sectors interact in the production process.

South-South trade in goods

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11-Oct-2006

by Przemyslaw Kowalski and Ben Shepherd

OECD Trade Policy Working Paper No. 40. The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for specialisation and efficiency gains.