Barriers to Trade in Financial and Insurance Services: Evidence from the United Kingdom

October 29, 2021

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Jiri Podpiera. Barriers to Trade in Financial and Insurance Services: Evidence from the United Kingdom, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2021) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

Distance, as a proxy for trade barriers, is found in many studies to matter even for weightless cross-border financial investments and lending, possibly due to the presence of information asymmetries. Its importance is tested in this paper using exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.’s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk of the U.K.’s exports. Trade barriers are confirmed only for interest-bearing activities – being in line with available results in the literature. The positive effect of EU membership appears to be small. Notwithstanding the uncertainties, it suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.’s export of financial and insurance services may be minor.

Subject: Exports, Financial institutions, Financial services, Insurance, International trade, Service exports, Trade barriers

Keywords: A. financial services, Censored Regression, EU membership, Evidence from the United Kingdom, Export, Export destination country population, Export of financial service, Exports, Financial Services, Global, Gravity Model, Insurance, Insurance service, Service exports, Services from the U.K., Trade barriers, U.K.'s export, U.K.'s export value

Publication Details

Pages:

21
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2021/260
Stock No:

WPIEA2021260
ISBN:

9781616350291
ISSN:

1018-5941

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