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Service trade liberalization as a handmaiden of competitiveness in manufacturing: An industrialized or developing country issue?

This paper discusses the issue whether developing countries forego chances in world manufactured markets by protecting intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection (ERP), the evidence is supportive. Yet, it seems more the indirect effect via expanding the service sector in total through liberalization and deregulation than the direct effect of lowering ERP in intermediate service industries for downstream manufacturing industries which is relevant. Developed countries on the other hand enjoy a much lower level of protection in important intermediate services like banking and telecom and thus these industries can be instrumental to help downstream manufacturing industries in adjustment and restructuring. It is argued that especially in the EU competition in intermediate services will further rise due to various EU-policy rooted factors. As a result, protection rates of services in individual EU countries will converge.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 1293

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Integration
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Thema
Services
Effective Rates of Protection
Trade Liberalization
Internationaler Dienstleistungsverkehr
Unternehmensdienstleistung
Vorprodukt
Protektionismus
Effektive Protektion
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Internationaler Wettbewerb
Außenhandelsliberalisierung
EU-Binnenmarkt
Schätzung
Welt
OECD-Staaten
Entwicklungsländer
EU-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Langhammer, Rolf J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2006

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Langhammer, Rolf J.
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)

Entstanden

  • 2006

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