Business Services, Trade and Costs

Molly Lesher and Hildegunn Nordås

No 46, OECD Trade Policy Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This technical paper analyses the role of business services in selected OECD and non-OECD economies using recently published input-output tables for 32 countries in or close to the year 2000. Business services have long been recognised as important drivers in the global economy, and this study reinforces that view with a comprehensive, quantitative cross-country analysis of how the manufacturing and business services sectors interact in the production process. Our analysis suggests that...

Keywords: backward linkage; Business service; concentration index; forward linkage; manufacturing; off-shoring; outsourcing; product variety; productivity; trade policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12-13
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