Liberalization of services trade has become a critical economic agenda in the world.
Although previous studies have examined the impact of regional services trade agreements …

While the lockdowns imposed in countries across the world in the wake of COVID-19 will be
lifted eventually, social distancing (both voluntary and selective) is likely to stay for longer …

Provisions affecting trade in services are nowadays an integral part of ambitious preferential
trade agreements (PTAs). The surge of PTAs that started in the 1960s and 1970s as shallow …

Global services trade declined by 20% during 2020 with significant heterogeneity across
countries, geographical regions and sectors. We present stylized facts and provide …

Despite the importance of services trade and “servicification” of economic activity,“Mode 4”
accounted for only 2.9% of total services trade in 2017. While existing literature has …

In recent years, deep trade agreements have spread around the world and gone beyond
tariff reductions. We aim to test whether the depth of agreements fosters trade in services. To …

Despite the cost and resource‐effectiveness of joint trade negotiations and
complementarities between goods and services‐trade flows, more than 12% of the 132 WTO …

We consider the role played by trade in differentiated inputs in the country-pair decision to
form a PTA in goods and in their decision to expand it to trade in services with varying …

Global services trade declined by 20% during 2020 with significant heterogeneity across
countries, geographical regions and sectors. The decline was correlated with COVID-19 …

This paper assesses the prospects of AfCFTA–whose implementation commenced in
January 2021–in boosting intra-African trade in services. We use the PPML estimator of the …