The Economic Structure of International Trade-in-Services Agreements
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Staiger, Robert W.; Sykes, Alan O.
署名单位：
Dartmouth College; National Bureau of Economic Research; Stanford University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
ISSN/ISSBN：
0022-3808
DOI：
10.1086/712786
发表日期：
2021
页码：
1287-1317
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摘要：
The existing economics literature on international trade agreements focuses on tariff agreements covering trade in goods and explains core features of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Tariffs play almost no role in services markets, however, and the literature cannot account for the strikingly different approach to trade liberalization in agreements such as the World Trade Organization's General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). We develop a model through which key features of GATS, including its emphasis on deep integration can be understood. And we use this model to suggest that there may also be a middle ground for services trade liberalization between the GATS deep-integration approach and the traditional shallow-integration approach of GATT.