英文文献:Services Liberalisation, Export Similarity and Trade in Services-服务自由化、出口相似度和服务贸易
英文文献作者:Wenxi Lu
英文文献摘要:
Studies show that service activities are essential for promoting manufacturing productivity and economic development. This raises an important question of how to promote services trade and whether policy liberalisation contributes to its development. The study examines the impact of policies on trade in services across countries using export data from UN Comtrade, where restrictions on trade as a result of policy are measured by the Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI). The estimations are in the form of a log-linear gravity model analyzing the effect of STRI on bilateral services trade and one-sided service exports. Our results show that a one per cent increase in the overall STRI brings about a 0.25%??“0.29% decrease in bilateral services trade and a 0.04% decrease in service exports. In addition, goods trade networks and export similarity show significant and positive impacts on services trade.
研究表明,服务活动对于促进制造业生产力和经济发展至关重要。这就提出了一个重要问题,即如何促进服务贸易,以及政策自由化是否有助于服务贸易的发展。该研究利用联合国Comtrade的出口数据,考察了政策对各国服务贸易的影响,其中,政策对贸易的限制由服务贸易限制指数(STRI)衡量。估计的形式是一个对数线性重力模型分析STRI对双边服务贸易和单边服务出口的影响。我们的结果显示,STRI的整体增长1%会导致双边服务贸易减少0.25%,服务出口减少0.04%。此外,商品贸易网络和出口相似度对服务贸易具有显著的正向影响。