The quality of bilateral services trade data: contribution to GTAP7 database

Arjan Lejour, Nico van Leeuwen and Arie ten Cate

No 212, CPB Memorandum from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Abstract: This paper has two aims. First, it describes CPB's contribution on bilateral services trade data to version 7 of the GTAP database. Among others, it uses reliability indices to determine the quality of the data reported by exporting and importing countries. Second, this paper discusses briefly some alternative methods to make a choice between two available reporting data for the same bilateral flow.The results can be downloaded from the accompanying spreadsheet.

JEL-codes: F10 F17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12
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