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Trade Reform in Services: Structural Change and Production Networks

By Adam Jakubik

March 28, 2025

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Adam Jakubik. "Trade Reform in Services: Structural Change and Production Networks", IMF Working Papers 2025, 061 (2025), accessed March 31, 2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229004763.001

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Summary

We study the effects of services trade reforms in a multi-country multi-sector quantitative trade model with input-output linkages. We find that (i) welfare gains from substantial services trade liberalization are large, around 3 percent on average; (ii) gains are larger by 0.7 percentage points in a hypothetical scenario where EMDEs’ consumption patterns have converged to AEs, and by 5.7 percentage points when their production networks have converged; (iii) both EMDEs and AEs gain from EMDEs reducing services barriers to the level of AEs. Services-intensive AEs with strong supply linkages to EMDEs benefit the most. Our results are important to illustrate the increasing gains from services trade as EMDEs continue on their development trajectory, and therefore call for injecting further ambition into multilateral negotiations on services trade reforms.

Subject: Consumer prices, Consumption, Economic sectors, Household consumption, Income, International trade, International trade organizations, National accounts, Prices, Services sector, Trade in services, Trade liberalization, Trade policy

Keywords: Republic of, Consumer prices, Consumption, Eastern Europe, European Central Bank, Expenditure, Global, Household consumption, Income, International trade organizations, Services sector, Services Trade, Structural Transformation, Trade in goods, Trade in services, Trade liberalization, Trade Model, Trade policy, Türkiye, United States

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