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No. 285 | 05 Sept 2024 |
Making the most out of digital trade in the United Kingdom
The digital transformation is having a profound impact on the international trade of the United Kingdom (UK). Digital trade exports have grown three times faster than other exports and now represent more than half of total exports, twice the OECD and... |
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No. 35 | 30 May 2006 |
Logistics and Time as a Trade Barrier
This paper analyses the relation between time for exports and imports, logistics services and international trade. Time is found not only to reduce trade volumes, but more importantly lengthy procedures for exports and imports reduce the probability... |
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No. 209 | 15 Dec 2017 |
Local content policies in mineral-exporting countries
Resource abundance does not always bring sustained economic growth and development. Moreover, the mining sector generally provides little direct employment in the regions where extraction occurs. In an attempt to derive greater benefits from their... |
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No. 50 | 02 Mar 2007 |
Linkage Between foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Trade Policy
Through empirical analysis and case studies, this document explores the relationships amongst foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and trade-related policies in OECD and four African countries (Ghana, Mozambique, Tunisia and Uganda). In OECD... |
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No. 34 | 22 May 2006 |
Liberalising Network Infrastructure Services and the GATS
This study reviews key issues in liberalising network infrastructure services ? including telecommunications, postal/courier, energy, water and sewage ? in the national and multilateral contexts. The economic and social significance of these services... |
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No. 225 | 18 Mar 2019 |
Job characteristics, job transitions and services trade
This report presents new cross-country evidence on labour market transitions in sectors exposed to growing volumes of international trade, and the job characteristics of workers employed in these sectors. It shows that export growth is significantly... |
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No. 114 | 24 Jun 2011 |
Intra-Firm Trade
The emergence of global value chains and the expansion of activities of multinational enterprises have increased the value of intra-firm trade flows. Despite growing attention from policymakers, few data are collected on trade transactions between... |
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No. 223 | 28 Jan 2019 |
Intra-EEA STRI Database: Methodology and Results
This paper presents new data on regulatory barriers affecting services trade within the European Economic Area (EEA), covering 25 EEA countries, 22 sectors and five years (2014-2018). Following the methodology of the OECD Services Trade... |
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No. 25 | 05 Dec 2005 |
Intertwined
This study analyses the complex relationship between manufacturing FDI and trade in services. An examination of how recent developments in the economic landscape have resulted in changes in the industrial organisation as well the structure of... |
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No. 277 | 06 Nov 2023 |
International trade in the wake of multiple shocks
In the midst of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, trade and economic growth face new challenges as the Russian Federation’s large-scale war against Ukraine has increased uncertainty and tensions along supply chains and the People’s Republic of... |
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No. 184 | 29 Sept 2015 |
International Trade and Investment by State Enterprises
The recent surge in competition between state and private firms in global markets calls for a reflection on how to minimise any potentially distortionary effects on international trade and investment created by state enterprises while at the same... |
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No. 206 | 20 Nov 2017 |
International Technology Transfer measures in an interconnected world
The aim of this paper is to inform the ongoing debate on the policies being used to encourage international technology transfer (ITT) and, of these, which have the potential to distort trade or investment and which may effectively promote ITT. The... |
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No. 222 | 24 Jan 2019 |
International Technology Transfer Policies
Concerns are growing about policies and measures that restrict market access with the effect of “forcing” technology transfer. Efforts to target forced technology transfer are complicated by the sometimes blurred line between voluntary and mutually... |
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No. 97 | 02 Jun 2010 |
International Standards and Trade
While there is a large literature on the economic theory of international standards, and their presumed effects, we know much less about how international standards work in practice. This paper reviews the body of empirical work that has investigated... |
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No. 61 | 22 Jan 2008 |
International Production Networks in the Nordic/Baltic Region
The Nordic countries are characterized by relatively compressed wage structures, implying that the incentives to offshore activities intensive in low-skilled labour might be particularly strong in these countries. In this paper, we document the... |
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No. 10 | 21 Dec 2004 |
International Licensing and the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries
This study presents an empirical analysis of the extent to which stronger intellectual property rights promote international technology transfer through licensing activities. The analysis focuses on licensing activities of U.S. multinationals as well... |
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No. 274 | 06 Jul 2023 |
Interactions between goods and services in international trade
This paper examines whether the customs valuation systems and rules of origin are sufficiently attuned to the changing landscape of commercial realities characterised by new and diverse configurations of goods-services trade. It proposes a framework... |
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No. 30 | 27 Jan 2006 |
Inter-modal Linkages in Services Trade
According to the GATS, services can be traded through four different modes of supply, namely, cross border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence, and movement of natural persons, termed modes 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. There is much... |
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No. 86 | 18 Feb 2009 |
Informal Cross-Border Trade and Trade Facilitation Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
The informal sector still constitutes an important part of developing country economies. In Africa, it is estimated to represent 43 percent of official gross domestic product (GDP), thus being almost equivalent to the formal sector. While this... |
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No. 88 | 19 May 2009 |
India's Trade Integration, Realising the Potential
This study examines economic implications of India’s trade and trade policy reforms during the period from 1990 to 2007. It first describes India’s economic growth and the composition and performance of its trade at the product and broad sector... |
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Making the most out of digital trade in the United Kingdom
Javier López González, Silvia Sorescu and Chiara Del Giovane
05 Sept 2024
The digital transformation is having a profound impact on the international trade of the United Kingdom (UK). Digital trade exports have grown three times faster than other exports and now represent more than half of total exports, twice the OECD and...
Logistics and Time as a Trade Barrier
Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Enrico Pinali and Massimo Geloso Grosso
30 May 2006
This paper analyses the relation between time for exports and imports, logistics services and international trade. Time is found not only to reduce trade volumes, but more importantly lengthy procedures for exports and imports reduce the probability...
Local content policies in mineral-exporting countries
Jane Korinek and Isabelle Ramdoo
15 Dec 2017
Resource abundance does not always bring sustained economic growth and development. Moreover, the mining sector generally provides little direct employment in the regions where extraction occurs. In an attempt to derive greater benefits from their...
Linkage Between foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Trade Policy
Norbert Wilson and Joyce Cacho
02 Mar 2007
Through empirical analysis and case studies, this document explores the relationships amongst foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and trade-related policies in OECD and four African countries (Ghana, Mozambique, Tunisia and Uganda). In OECD...
Liberalising Network Infrastructure Services and the GATS
Massimo Geloso Grosso
22 May 2006
This study reviews key issues in liberalising network infrastructure services ? including telecommunications, postal/courier, energy, water and sewage ? in the national and multilateral contexts. The economic and social significance of these services...
Job characteristics, job transitions and services trade
Sebastian Benz and Louise Johannesson
18 Mar 2019
This report presents new cross-country evidence on labour market transitions in sectors exposed to growing volumes of international trade, and the job characteristics of workers employed in these sectors. It shows that export growth is significantly...
Intra-Firm Trade
Rainer Lanz and Sébastien Miroudot
24 Jun 2011
The emergence of global value chains and the expansion of activities of multinational enterprises have increased the value of intra-firm trade flows. Despite growing attention from policymakers, few data are collected on trade transactions between...
Intra-EEA STRI Database: Methodology and Results
Sebastian Benz and Frédéric Gonzales
28 Jan 2019
This paper presents new data on regulatory barriers affecting services trade within the European Economic Area (EEA), covering 25 EEA countries, 22 sectors and five years (2014-2018). Following the methodology of the OECD Services Trade...
Intertwined
Jonathan Gage and Molly Lesher
05 Dec 2005
This study analyses the complex relationship between manufacturing FDI and trade in services. An examination of how recent developments in the economic landscape have resulted in changes in the industrial organisation as well the structure of...
International trade in the wake of multiple shocks
OECD
06 Nov 2023
In the midst of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, trade and economic growth face new challenges as the Russian Federation’s large-scale war against Ukraine has increased uncertainty and tensions along supply chains and the People’s Republic of...
International Trade and Investment by State Enterprises
Przemyslaw Kowalski and Kateryna Perepechay
29 Sept 2015
The recent surge in competition between state and private firms in global markets calls for a reflection on how to minimise any potentially distortionary effects on international trade and investment created by state enterprises while at the same...
International Technology Transfer measures in an interconnected world
Przemyslaw Kowalski, Daniel Rabaioli and Sebastian Vallejo
20 Nov 2017
The aim of this paper is to inform the ongoing debate on the policies being used to encourage international technology transfer (ITT) and, of these, which have the potential to distort trade or investment and which may effectively promote ITT. The...
International Technology Transfer Policies
Andrea Andrenelli, Julien Gourdon and Evdokia Moïsé
24 Jan 2019
Concerns are growing about policies and measures that restrict market access with the effect of “forcing” technology transfer. Efforts to target forced technology transfer are complicated by the sometimes blurred line between voluntary and mutually...
International Standards and Trade
G. M. Peter Swann
02 Jun 2010
While there is a large literature on the economic theory of international standards, and their presumed effects, we know much less about how international standards work in practice. This paper reviews the body of empirical work that has investigated...
International Production Networks in the Nordic/Baltic Region
Karolina Ekholm and Katarina Hakkala
22 Jan 2008
The Nordic countries are characterized by relatively compressed wage structures, implying that the incentives to offshore activities intensive in low-skilled labour might be particularly strong in these countries. In this paper, we document the...
International Licensing and the Strengthening of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries
Walter G. Park and Douglas C. Lippoldt
21 Dec 2004
This study presents an empirical analysis of the extent to which stronger intellectual property rights promote international technology transfer through licensing activities. The analysis focuses on licensing activities of U.S. multinationals as well...
Interactions between goods and services in international trade
Kazuyo Aoki, Cemre Balaban, Matteo Fiorini, Sébastien Miroudot and Irene Oliván García
06 Jul 2023
This paper examines whether the customs valuation systems and rules of origin are sufficiently attuned to the changing landscape of commercial realities characterised by new and diverse configurations of goods-services trade. It proposes a framework...
Inter-modal Linkages in Services Trade
Rupa Chanda
27 Jan 2006
According to the GATS, services can be traded through four different modes of supply, namely, cross border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence, and movement of natural persons, termed modes 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. There is much...
Informal Cross-Border Trade and Trade Facilitation Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa
Caroline Lesser and Evdokia Moisé-Leeman
18 Feb 2009
The informal sector still constitutes an important part of developing country economies. In Africa, it is estimated to represent 43 percent of official gross domestic product (GDP), thus being almost equivalent to the formal sector. While this...
India's Trade Integration, Realising the Potential
Przemyslaw Kowalski and Nora Dihel
19 May 2009
This study examines economic implications of India’s trade and trade policy reforms during the period from 1990 to 2007. It first describes India’s economic growth and the composition and performance of its trade at the product and broad sector...