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No. 221 | 23 Jan 2019 |
The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
The rapid acceleration of digital transformation has had profound implications for services trade but the benefits of digitalisation risk being derailed by existing and emerging trade barriers. The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index... |
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No. 220 | 23 Jan 2019 |
Trade and Cross-Border Data Flows
The ubiquitous exchange of data across borders has given rise to a range of concerns by governments and citizens about some of the effects of so much information being collected and used, often without the knowledge of data subjects. This has led... |
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No. 219 | 21 Jan 2019 |
Approaches to market openness in the digital age
The digital transformation has had a profound impact on international trade, lowering barriers to internationalisation and contributing to growing trade competitiveness, but at the same time making international trade transactions more complex.... |
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No. 218 | 07 Jan 2019 |
Measuring distortions in international markets: The aluminium value chain
This report builds on the OECD’s longstanding work measuring government support in agriculture, fossil fuels, and fisheries in order to estimate support and related market distortions in the aluminium value chain. Results show that non-market forces,... |
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No. 217 | 08 Oct 2018 |
Digital Trade and Market Openness
This paper aims to provide policy makers with a broad overview of the issues that the digital transformation raises for trade with a view to informing how these might be reflected in trade policy design. It discusses how digitalisation has changed... |
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No. 216 | 05 Sept 2018 |
Mapping the OECD Government Procurement Taxonomy with International Best Practices
The OECD developed a taxonomy of measures affecting government procurement which provides a classification system for different GP measures, policies and procedures, which can impact cross-border government procurement. This project aims to further... |
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No. 215 | 16 May 2018 |
Estimating Ad Valorem Equivalents of Non-Tariff Measures
A novel econometric method is used to estimate trade effects of non-tariff measures (NTMs) for roughly 5 000 traded goods and 80 countries. It explicitly distinguishes several types of measures and ascertains their distinct effects on trade volumes... |
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No. 214 | 11 Apr 2018 |
Market Opening, Growth and Employment
What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non-tariff barriers, trade... |
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No. 213 | 28 Mar 2018 |
The value of market access and national treatment commitments in services trade agreements
This paper looks at market access and national treatment commitments for services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and in 95 regional trade agreements (RTAs) involving the countries that are covered in the OECD Services Trade... |
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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. 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. 210 | 12 Dec 2017 |
Trading firms and trading costs in services: Firm-level analysis
This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and... |
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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. 208 | 06 Dec 2017 |
Services in Global Value Chains: Trade patterns and gains from specialisation
Within global value chains (GVCs), services and manufacturing activities are intertwined. This report further investigates the role played by services in GVCs by looking at patterns of specialisation in 23 services industries over the period... |
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No. 207 | 27 Nov 2017 |
GVC Participation and Economic Transformation: Lessons from three sectors
Integration into Global value chains (GVCs) provides opportunities for economic growth and development. However, the nature and extent of these opportunities differ across countries and sectors, and participation in GVCs can support processes of... |
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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. 205 | 27 Jul 2017 |
Digital Trade
This paper explores the definition, measurement, and policy implications of digital trade, proposing a tentative typology of digital trade that can be used to unpack transactions and analyse the issues. Digitalisation is changing what and how we... |
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No. 204 | 12 Jul 2017 |
Export controls and competitiveness in African mining and minerals processing industries
Governments may decide to control the export of unprocessed raw materials hoping that this will promote local downstream industries. There is scant empirical examination of the actual outcomes of such policies put in place. This paper describes use... |
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No. 203 | 23 Jun 2017 |
Mapping the participation of ASEAN small- and medium- sized enterprises in global value chains
Participation in global value chains (GVCs) can be a pathway for economic development. It is associated with growing productivity, exporting more sophisticated products and a less concentrated export basket (Kowalski et al., 2015). However, it is... |
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No. 202 | 25 May 2017 |
Making trade work for all
Against the background of rising anti-globalisation sentiment, this report argues that, while there are good reasons for some people to be angry, trade is not the root of many problems, nor can it solve them on its own. What is needed is an... |
OECD Trade Policy Papers
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The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
Janos Ferencz
23 Jan 2019
The rapid acceleration of digital transformation has had profound implications for services trade but the benefits of digitalisation risk being derailed by existing and emerging trade barriers. The OECD Digital Services Trade Restrictiveness Index...
Trade and Cross-Border Data Flows
Francesca Casalini and Javier López González
23 Jan 2019
The ubiquitous exchange of data across borders has given rise to a range of concerns by governments and citizens about some of the effects of so much information being collected and used, often without the knowledge of data subjects. This has led...
Approaches to market openness in the digital age
Francesca Casalini, Javier López González and Evdokia Moïsé
21 Jan 2019
The digital transformation has had a profound impact on international trade, lowering barriers to internationalisation and contributing to growing trade competitiveness, but at the same time making international trade transactions more complex....
This report builds on the OECD’s longstanding work measuring government support in agriculture, fossil fuels, and fisheries in order to estimate support and related market distortions in the aluminium value chain. Results show that non-market forces,...
Digital Trade and Market Openness
Javier López González and Janos Ferencz
08 Oct 2018
This paper aims to provide policy makers with a broad overview of the issues that the digital transformation raises for trade with a view to informing how these might be reflected in trade policy design. It discusses how digitalisation has changed...
Mapping the OECD Government Procurement Taxonomy with International Best Practices
Julien Gourdon
05 Sept 2018
The OECD developed a taxonomy of measures affecting government procurement which provides a classification system for different GP measures, policies and procedures, which can impact cross-border government procurement. This project aims to further...
Estimating Ad Valorem Equivalents of Non-Tariff Measures
Olivier Cadot, Julien Gourdon and Frank van Tongeren
16 May 2018
A novel econometric method is used to estimate trade effects of non-tariff measures (NTMs) for roughly 5 000 traded goods and 80 countries. It explicitly distinguishes several types of measures and ascertains their distinct effects on trade volumes...
Market Opening, Growth and Employment
OECD
11 Apr 2018
What can further market integration contribute to growth and employment? A series of hypothetical trade reform scenarios explores what countries at different levels of development can expect to gain from reforming tariffs, non-tariff barriers, trade...
The value of market access and national treatment commitments in services trade agreements
Philipp Lamprecht and Sébastien Miroudot
28 Mar 2018
This paper looks at market access and national treatment commitments for services in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and in 95 regional trade agreements (RTAs) involving the countries that are covered in the OECD Services Trade...
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...
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...
Trading firms and trading costs in services: Firm-level analysis
Dorothée Rouzet, Sebastian Benz and Francesca Spinelli
12 Dec 2017
This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and...
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...
Services in Global Value Chains: Trade patterns and gains from specialisation
Sébastien Miroudot and Charles Cadestin
06 Dec 2017
Within global value chains (GVCs), services and manufacturing activities are intertwined. This report further investigates the role played by services in GVCs by looking at patterns of specialisation in 23 services industries over the period...
GVC Participation and Economic Transformation: Lessons from three sectors
Marie-Agnes Jouanjean, Julien Gourdon and Jane Korinek
27 Nov 2017
Integration into Global value chains (GVCs) provides opportunities for economic growth and development. However, the nature and extent of these opportunities differ across countries and sectors, and participation in GVCs can support processes of...
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...
Digital Trade
Javier López González and Marie-Agnes Jouanjean
27 Jul 2017
This paper explores the definition, measurement, and policy implications of digital trade, proposing a tentative typology of digital trade that can be used to unpack transactions and analyse the issues. Digitalisation is changing what and how we...
Export controls and competitiveness in African mining and minerals processing industries
Barbara Fliess, Ernst Idsardi and Riaan Rossouw
12 Jul 2017
Governments may decide to control the export of unprocessed raw materials hoping that this will promote local downstream industries. There is scant empirical examination of the actual outcomes of such policies put in place. This paper describes use...
Mapping the participation of ASEAN small- and medium- sized enterprises in global value chains
Javier López González
23 Jun 2017
Participation in global value chains (GVCs) can be a pathway for economic development. It is associated with growing productivity, exporting more sophisticated products and a less concentrated export basket (Kowalski et al., 2015). However, it is...
Making trade work for all
OECD
25 May 2017
Against the background of rising anti-globalisation sentiment, this report argues that, while there are good reasons for some people to be angry, trade is not the root of many problems, nor can it solve them on its own. What is needed is an...