Trends in International Trade and FDI in Services: a global database of services trade

Joseph Francois, Olga Pindyuk and Julia Woerz ()

No 20090802, IIDE Discussion Papers from Institue for International and Development Economics

Abstract: This paper builds upon an updated database of international trade and FDI in services (Trade in Services Database Ð TSD) to provide an overview of recent trends in volume and modes of trade in services. The database combines, through concordance to a common classification scheme, data from a number of sources on trade and FDI stocks and flows. The re-classification of these data into a broadly comparable BOPS-based classification scheme yields 15 individual service sectors (and 16 sectors for FDI data). The data sources include the OECD, the IMF, Eurostat, and UNCTAD. The time span ranges broadly from 1994-2006, with earlier data available for individual countries. Cross-border trade flows with the world are available for 188 countries, while bilateral data and FDI data are reported by a narrower set of countries. For countries that do not report bilateral trade directly, a partial dataset is included based on mirror flows from reporter countries. On this basis, while only 30 countries report bilateral flows directly, we have at least partial information on bilateral trade flows for 64 countries, and aggregate trade data for up to 188 countries. NOTE the zip archive includes the dataset in STATA9 format, the paper documenting the dataset, and *.do files for producing a mapping to GTAP service sectors and for producing a larger dataset using mirror flows.

Keywords: Services trade; Services database; TSD; bilateral services trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2009-08
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