Christopher Findlay (ed.)

Impediments to Trade in Services

Measurements and Policy Implications
Herausgeber: Findlay, Christopher; Warren, Tony

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Produktbeschreibung

In the lead-up to the next multilateral round of trade negotiations on services in 2000, the accurate identificationi and measurement of impediments to services trade and investment will become an issue of great importance. This study will address this issue by providing models for identifying and measuring these impediments.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 744g
• ISBN-13: 9780415240901
• ISBN-10: 0415240905
• Artikelnr.: 21050743

Autorenporträt

Christopher Findlay took up the position of Professor of Economics in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian National University in October 1999. Prior to that he was Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Adelaide. His research is mainly on Australia's trade with Asia, particularly in the services sector. Tony Warren is a principal consultant with the Network Economics Consulting Group in Canberra, where he provides economic and regulatory advice on trade practices issues to a range of transport and telecommunications companies in Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. Dr Warren is also Visiting Fellow in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at The Australian National University. His current research includes an international comparison of the impact of regulation on telecommunications pricing; and an analysis of the interaction of trade and competition policies in relation to service industries.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Christopher Findlay and Tony Warren 2. The services sector
in output and in international trade Jong-Soon Kang 3. Price impact
measures of impediments to services trade Malcolm Bosworth, Christopher
Findlay, Ray Trewin and Tony Warren 4. Assessing barriers to services
sector investment Leanne Holmes and Alexis Hardin 5. The identification of
impediments to trade and investment in telecommunications services Tony
Warren 6. The impact on output of impediments to trade and investment in
telecommunications services Tony Warren 7. A price-impact measure of
impediments to trade in telecommunications services Ray Trewin 8. Modelling
the benefits of increasing competition in international air services Martin
Johnson, Tendai Gregan, Geraldine Gentle and Paul Belin 9. Regulatory
reform in the maritime industry Jong-Soon Kang and Christopher Findlay 10.
Restrictiveness of international trade in the maritime industry Greg
McGuire, Michael Schuele and Tina Smith 11. Price impact of restrictions on
maritime transport services Jong-Soon Kang 12. Restrictiveness of
international trade in banking services Greg McGuire and Michael Schuele
13. The price impact of restrictions on banking services Kaleeswaran
Kalirajan, Greg McGuire, Duc Nguyen-Hong and Michael Schuele 14. Trade in
education services and the impacts of barriers to trade Steven Kemp 15.
Measuring barriers to market access for services: a pilot study on
accountancy services Allesandra Colecchia 16. Issues in the application of
GCE models to services trade liberalisation Philippa Dee, Alexis Hardin and
Leanne Holmes 17. A comparison of existing services trade arrangements
within APEC Sherry Stephenson 18. Services issues in APEC Christopher
Findlay and Tony Warren 19. The WTO agenda: next steps Richard Snape