The determinants of service exports from Central and Eastern Europe

Abstract

The transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have become important exporters of many types of services to Western Europe. We identify the sources of CEE's advantages over competing exporters, such as India, China and Brazil, using disaggregated data on service exports and a novel estimation technique for the gravity equation. Our results indicate that the importance of geographical distance varies substantially across types of service exports. Geography is important for exports of construction services, but it has a negligible impact on computer-related services. However, the relative quality of legal institutions influences trade across a broad range of service categories. The results demonstrate that aggregating services that are not homogeneous could conceal important differences in the effects of geographical distance and other variables on the pattern of service trade. Copyright (c) 2010 The Authors. Journal compilation (c) 2010 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Las empresas de servicios en América Latina: Un estudio exploratorio sobre factores de competitividad internacional, obstáculos y políticas públicas. (Service companies in Latin America: an exploratory study about determinants of international competitiveness, obstacles and public policies).

“…Por último, el contexto institucional y legal tiene un papel central en las decisiones de localización, ya que, dada la naturaleza intangible y poco estandarizada de ciertos servicios, su comercio suele estar asociado a problemas de información asimétrica (Kimura y Lee, 2006;Kolstad y Villanger, 2007;Kandilov y Grennes, 2010;Liu et al, 2011). Los servicios menos rutinarios y más complejos, que requieren mayor "customización", se deslocalizan preferentemente a países con mejor calidad institucional 4 .…”

La competitividad de América Latina en el comercio de servicios basados en el conocimiento

“…Por último, el contexto institucional y legal tiene un papel central en las decisiones de localización, ya que dada la naturaleza intangible y poco estandarizada de ciertos servicios, su comercio suele estar asociado a problemas de información asimétrica (Kimura y Lee, 2006;Kolstad y Villanger, 2007;Kandilov y Grennes, 2010;Liu, Feils y Scholnick, 2011). Así, los servicios menos rutinarios y más complejos, que requieren mayor "personalización" o "customización", se deslocalizan preferentemente hacia países con mejor calidad institucional.…”

Management of Sustainable Transport and Logistics Services Sector's Growth in the Context of Lithuanian Economic Development

“…The international trade in the services grows much faster than the trade of merchandise (Kandilov and Grennes, 2010) recently. Despite of the services features, what are widely analysed in the scientific literature (Grönroos, 2001;Edvardsson, et al, 2005;Hiziroglu, et al, 2013), such as perishability, heterogeneity, unity of the production and consuming -practise of the developed and developing countries shows that these countries are trying to enter the international market with services, too.…”