OECD Trade Policy Papers
This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected trade policy studies prepared for use within the OECD.
NB. No. 1 to No. 139 were released under the previous series title OECD Trade Policy Working Papers.
- ISSN: 18166873 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/18166873
Business Services, Trade and Costs
This technical paper analyses the role of business services in selected OECD and non-OECD
economies using recently published input-output tables for 32 countries in or close to the year 2000.
Business services have long been recognised as important drivers in the global economy, and this study
reinforces that view with a comprehensive, quantitative cross-country analysis of how the manufacturing
and business services sectors interact in the production process. Our analysis suggests that...
Keywords: Business service, product variety, concentration index, backward linkage, productivity, manufacturing, off-shoring, forward linkage, outsourcing, trade policy
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