Business Services, Trade and Costs

[摘要] This technical paper analyses the role of business services in selected OECD and non-OECD economies using recently published input-output tables for 32 countries in or close to the year 2000. Business services have long been recognised as important drivers in the global economy, and this study reinforces that view with a comprehensive, quantitative cross-country analysis of how the manufacturing and business services sectors interact in the production process. Our analysis suggests that...

[发布日期] 2006-12-13 [发布机构] Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

[学科分类] 社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

[关键词] Business service;product variety;concentration index;backward linkage;productivity;manufacturing;off-shoring;forward linkage;outsourcing;trade policy