World Trade in Services : Evidence from A New Dataset /

Using a newly constructed dataset on trade in services for 192 countries from 1970 to 2014, this paper shows that services currently constitute one-fourth of world trade and an increasingly important component of global production. A detailed analysis of patterns and stylized facts reveals that expo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Loungani, Prakash
Other Authors: Mishra, Saurabh, Papageorgiou, Chris, Wang, Ke
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/077
Online Access:Full text available on IMF