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Determinants of comparative advantage in services

van der Marel, Erik (2011) Determinants of comparative advantage in services. Working paper. Group d'Economie Mondiale, Paris, France.

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Abstract

This paper analyzes whether and to what extent determinants of comparative advantage have explanatory power for conventional services trade. It assesses the geographical, Heckscher‐Ohlin and institutional determinants of services trade based on the literature for goods trade. Moreover, this paper investigates the importance of a country’s governance of regulation as a source of comparative advantage in services markets. Determinants for services trade differ from goods. Services trade is more sensitive to a country’s stock of high‐skilled and mid‐skilled labour, more receptive to the level of trust enjoyed by any importers, and more dependant on the quality of regulatory governance practiced when liberalizing services sectors. The counterfactual analyses presented in this paper show furthermore that these factors when affected by policy can bring substantial gains to countries. Specifically, countries with already good regulatory governance structures would enjoy relatively higher growth share in services trade by capitalizing on their high‐skilled stock. Other countries, however, would instead to better by improving their condition of regulatory governance.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Official URL: http://gem.sciences-po.fr/index.html
Additional Information: © 2011 The Author
Divisions: International Relations
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Date Deposited: 20 Oct 2011 12:12
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2024 19:05
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/38993

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