Trade costs and productivity in services sectors

Sébastien Miroudot, Jehan Sauvage () and Ben Shepherd

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 114, issue 1, 36-38

Abstract: This paper provides the first evidence linking lower international trade costs with higher productivity in services sectors. On average, lowering trade costs by 10% is associated with a gain in total factor productivity of around 0.5%, which is an effect of similar magnitude to that for goods sectors.

Keywords: Trade policy; Trade in services; Productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2011.09.005

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