Impediments to Trade in Services: Measurements and Policy Implications

ISBN-13: 9780415240901 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 416 str.

Christopher Findlay; Tony Warren

Opis

The economic impact of barriers to world trade and investment in services has been thought impossible to measure. As a consequence, significant global policy initiatives such as the General Agreement on Trade in Services have been concluded in an information void. This book challenges the view that impediments to services trade cannot be quantified, detailing how these barriers can be measured and their significance estimated. It contains studies measuring impediments to trade and investment in a variety of sectors, including telecommunications, finance, shipping, education and air transport.

Recenzje

'...this book sheds fresh light on the costs imposed by barriers to trade in a range of service sectors...provides a useful platform on which other research can build.' Duncan McKenzie, International Financial Services, London (IFSL) in The Business Economist [Volume 33 No 1 2002]

O autorze

Christopher Findlay took up the position of Professor of Economics in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian National University in October 1999. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide. His research is mainly on Australia's trade with Asia, particularly in the services sector. Tony Warren is a principal consultant with the Network Economics Consulting Group in Canberra, where he provides economic and regulatory advice on trade practices issues to a range of transport and telecommunications companies in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Dr Warren is also Visiting Fellow in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian National University. His current research includes an international comparison of the impact of regulation on telecommunications pricing; and an analysis of the interaction of trade and competition policies in relation to service industries.