Bilateral Services Trade Data and the GTAP database

Nico van Leeuwen () and Arjan Lejour ()

CPB Memoranda from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Abstract: This paper has two aims. The first is a description of CPB's method to modify the GTAP data base, version 6 with bilateral services trade data. The source for constructing bilateral flows in this paper is a recent comprehensive database from the OECD which was established in cooperation with Eurostat, based on the concepts and framework of trade in services set out by the IMF in their balance of payments statistics. We manage to cover flows between 24 OECD countries and four sectors, which equals approximately 75% of the total flows of services world trade in 2001. On the other hand however, it doesn't cover all GTAP services sectors. The second is our proposal to contribute (updated) bilateral services trade data to the GTAP database, version 7, base year 2004. These data will include 24 reporting OECD countries with 24 to 55 partner countries for 10 services sectors.

Keywords: trade in services; reconciling bilateral trade data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006-08
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