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No. 145 | 01 Mar 2013 |
Mineral Resource Trade in Chile
Mineral resources present a formidable source of wealth but a formidable challenge to regulate in order to maximize social welfare from their extraction. Some resource-rich countries, such as Chile, have been successful in developing their economies... |
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No. 51 | 13 Apr 2007 |
Modal Estimates of Services Barriers
This paper presents improved approaches to measurement of services barriers by using alternative weighting methods and improved econometric specifications; the data include barriers affecting each mode of services supply and additional... |
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No. 259 | 23 Feb 2022 |
Modelling trade policy scenarios
COVID-19 has drawn renewed attention to the economic importance of cross border mobility. Frictions in cross border mobility of labour can substantially impact the economy and international trade, by causing a long-term decrease in net migration that... |
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No. 152 | 26 Jun 2013 |
Multilateralising Regionalism
Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional trade... |
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No. 151 | 10 May 2013 |
Multilateralising Regionalism on Government Procurement
The potential multilateralisation of government procurement commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) presents many issues and challenges. To what extent do RTAs go beyond the 2012 revised Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), and how do... |
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No. 139 | 29 Jun 2012 |
Multilateralising Regionalism: Disciplines on Export Restrictions in Regional Trade Agreements
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at the... |
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No. 106 | 06 Dec 2010 |
Multilateralising Regionalism: How Preferential Are Services Commitments in Regional Trade Agreements?
This report examines services schedules of commitments in 56 regional trade agreements (RTAs) where an OECD country is a party. The preferential content of RTAs is assessed through an analysis of market access and national treatment commitments at... |
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No. 99 | 28 Jun 2010 |
Multilateralising Regionalism: The Case of E-Commerce
This study analyses the extent to which e-commerce provisions in existing RTAs can be multilateralised. E-commerce has been recognised as an important engine for growth and development, yet WTO negotiations in this area have yielded very little... |
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No. 211 | 27 Feb 2018 |
Multinational enterprises and global value chains: the OECD analytical AMNE database
In order to better understand the interdependencies between trade and investment in global value chains (GVCs), the OECD has developed a new dataset on the Activities of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE). This dataset starts from official AMNE... |
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No. 212 | 19 Mar 2018 |
Multinational production and trade in services
Using the OECD analytical AMNE database, this paper provides new evidence on the services activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and discusses the relationship between cross-border trade in services and the production of services through... |
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No. 253 | 23 Sept 2021 |
Nowcasting aggregate services trade
The increasing importance of services trade in the global economy contrasts with the lack of timely data to monitor recent developments. The nowcasting models developed in this paper are aimed at providing insights into current changes in total... |
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No. 198 | 02 Mar 2017 |
OECD taxonomy of measures affecting trade in government procurement processes
This paper develops a taxonomy of government procurement (GP) measures to provide a basis for further analysis. It aims to undertake a more comprehensive, albeit not exhaustive, collection of GP barriers across countries, and to develop a... |
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No. 273 | 03 May 2023 |
Of bytes and trade: Quantifying the impact of digitalisation on trade
This paper provides an overview of the evolving nature of digital trade and digital trade policies. It shows that digital trade has been growing faster than “non-digital” trade. By 2018, 24% of global trade (USD 5.1 trillion) could be considered... |
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No. 226 | 20 Mar 2019 |
Offshoring of services functions and labour market adjustments
About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing, matching services functions performed by workers inside manufacturing firms to the same services functions provided by outside... |
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No. 134 | 31 Oct 2011 |
Openness, Wage Gaps and Unions in Chile
This paper examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI openness in twenty-nine sectors of the Chilean economy. Over the last four decades, this country almost fully liberalized its trade and foreign direct investment, which... |
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No. 65 | 22 Jan 2008 |
Outsourcing in East Asia and its impact on the Japanese and Korean Labour Markets
This study describes the changing patterns of intermediate goods trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in East Asia and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets. The main findings of the... |
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No. 231 | 11 Sept 2019 |
Participation and benefits of SMEs in GVCs in Southeast Asia
Although global value chain (GVCs) participation in Southeast Asia has been growing, little is known about whether the benefits from participation are accruing to larger firms or if small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up the... |
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No. 192 | 11 Oct 2016 |
Participation in Global Value Chains in Latin America
This paper characterises the extent of GVC participation in selected countries of Latin America. It looks deeper into certain key trade policy-related aspects of Latin American trade integration with the potential to improve GVC participation. Latin... |
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No. 179 | 01 Apr 2015 |
Participation of Developing Countries in Global Value Chains
Although global value chains (GVCs) are often considered a defining feature of the current wave of globalisation, little is known about: i) what drives GVC participation; ii) what the benefits associated to growing participation are; or iii) how... |
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No. 104 | 14 Sept 2010 |
Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries
The past two decades have witnessed an active period of global reform with respect to policies concerning Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). This paper examines – from an empirical, economic perspective – policies that complement the generally... |
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Mineral Resource Trade in Chile
Jane Korinek
01 Mar 2013
Mineral resources present a formidable source of wealth but a formidable challenge to regulate in order to maximize social welfare from their extraction. Some resource-rich countries, such as Chile, have been successful in developing their economies...
Modal Estimates of Services Barriers
Nora Dihel and Ben Shepherd
13 Apr 2007
This paper presents improved approaches to measurement of services barriers by using alternative weighting methods and improved econometric specifications; the data include barriers affecting each mode of services supply and additional...
Modelling trade policy scenarios
Donal Smith, Przemyslaw Kowalski and Frank van Tongeren
23 Feb 2022
COVID-19 has drawn renewed attention to the economic importance of cross border mobility. Frictions in cross border mobility of labour can substantially impact the economy and international trade, by causing a long-term decrease in net migration that...
Multilateralising Regionalism
Iza Lejárraga
26 Jun 2013
Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market opacity. This study distils the most progressive practices for promoting regulatory transparency in over one hundred regional trade...
Multilateralising Regionalism on Government Procurement
Asako Ueno
10 May 2013
The potential multilateralisation of government procurement commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) presents many issues and challenges. To what extent do RTAs go beyond the 2012 revised Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), and how do...
Multilateralising Regionalism: Disciplines on Export Restrictions in Regional Trade Agreements
Jane Korinek and Jessica Bartos
29 Jun 2012
The proliferation of preferential trade agreements has posed challenges for the multilateral trading system. But regional trade agreements (RTAs) also allow countries to develop and strengthen trade disciplines beyond what is possible at the...
Multilateralising Regionalism: How Preferential Are Services Commitments in Regional Trade Agreements?
Sébastien Miroudot, Jehan Sauvage and Marie Sudreau
06 Dec 2010
This report examines services schedules of commitments in 56 regional trade agreements (RTAs) where an OECD country is a party. The preferential content of RTAs is assessed through an analysis of market access and national treatment commitments at...
Multilateralising Regionalism: The Case of E-Commerce
Lior Herman
28 Jun 2010
This study analyses the extent to which e-commerce provisions in existing RTAs can be multilateralised. E-commerce has been recognised as an important engine for growth and development, yet WTO negotiations in this area have yielded very little...
Multinational enterprises and global value chains: the OECD analytical AMNE database
Charles Cadestin, Koen De Backer, Isabelle Desnoyers-James, Sébastien Miroudot, Davide Rigo and Ming Ye
27 Feb 2018
In order to better understand the interdependencies between trade and investment in global value chains (GVCs), the OECD has developed a new dataset on the Activities of Multinational Enterprises (AMNE). This dataset starts from official AMNE...
Multinational production and trade in services
Andrea Andrenelli, Charles Cadestin, Koen De Backer, Sébastien Miroudot, Davide Rigo and Ming Ye
19 Mar 2018
Using the OECD analytical AMNE database, this paper provides new evidence on the services activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and discusses the relationship between cross-border trade in services and the production of services through...
Nowcasting aggregate services trade
Alexander Jaax, Frédéric Gonzales and Annabelle Mourougane
23 Sept 2021
The increasing importance of services trade in the global economy contrasts with the lack of timely data to monitor recent developments. The nowcasting models developed in this paper are aimed at providing insights into current changes in total...
OECD taxonomy of measures affecting trade in government procurement processes
Julien Gourdon, Véronique Bastien and Laurence Folliot-Lalliot
02 Mar 2017
This paper develops a taxonomy of government procurement (GP) measures to provide a basis for further analysis. It aims to undertake a more comprehensive, albeit not exhaustive, collection of GP barriers across countries, and to develop a...
Of bytes and trade: Quantifying the impact of digitalisation on trade
Javier López González, Silvia Sorescu and Pinar Kaynak
03 May 2023
This paper provides an overview of the evolving nature of digital trade and digital trade policies. It shows that digital trade has been growing faster than “non-digital” trade. By 2018, 24% of global trade (USD 5.1 trillion) could be considered...
Offshoring of services functions and labour market adjustments
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås
20 Mar 2019
About 40% of employment in manufacturing is in services functions. This paper develops a measure of narrow outsourcing, matching services functions performed by workers inside manufacturing firms to the same services functions provided by outside...
Openness, Wage Gaps and Unions in Chile
Jorge Friedman, Nanno Mulder, Sebastián Faúndez, Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Carlos Yévenes, Mario Velásquez, Fernando Baizán and Gerhard Reinecke
31 Oct 2011
This paper examines the relationship between wages and levels of trade and FDI openness in twenty-nine sectors of the Chilean economy. Over the last four decades, this country almost fully liberalized its trade and foreign direct investment, which...
Outsourcing in East Asia and its impact on the Japanese and Korean Labour Markets
Sanghoon Ahn, Kyoji Fukao and Keiko Ito
22 Jan 2008
This study describes the changing patterns of intermediate goods trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) in East Asia and investigates the impacts of international outsourcing on the Japanese and the Korean labour markets. The main findings of the...
Participation and benefits of SMEs in GVCs in Southeast Asia
Javier López González, Laura Munro, Julien Gourdon, Emanuele Mazzini and Andrea Andrenelli
11 Sept 2019
Although global value chain (GVCs) participation in Southeast Asia has been growing, little is known about whether the benefits from participation are accruing to larger firms or if small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which make up the...
Participation in Global Value Chains in Latin America
Charles Cadestin, Julien Gourdon and Przemyslaw Kowalski
11 Oct 2016
This paper characterises the extent of GVC participation in selected countries of Latin America. It looks deeper into certain key trade policy-related aspects of Latin American trade integration with the potential to improve GVC participation. Latin...
Participation of Developing Countries in Global Value Chains
Przemyslaw Kowalski, Javier Lopez Gonzalez, Alexandros Ragoussis and Cristian Ugarte
01 Apr 2015
Although global value chains (GVCs) are often considered a defining feature of the current wave of globalisation, little is known about: i) what drives GVC participation; ii) what the benefits associated to growing participation are; or iii) how...
Policy Complements to the Strengthening of IPRS in Developing Countries
Ricardo H. Cavazos Cepeda, Douglas C. Lippoldt and Jonathan Senft
14 Sept 2010
The past two decades have witnessed an active period of global reform with respect to policies concerning Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs). This paper examines – from an empirical, economic perspective – policies that complement the generally...