Research On The Impact Of Service Trade Barriers On Service Trade Exports

With the development of information technology and the deepening of economic globalization,the status of service trade in international trade has become increasingly prominent.The overall scale of global service trade has been expanding,and various service departments have gradually been liberalized,and the development trend is rapid.In this era,it is necessary to study the factors affecting the export of a country's service trade,which is conducive to countrnes' favorable position in the global market.Starting from the gravitational model,domestic and foreign scholars studied the impact of bilateral economic aggregates and distances on service trade exports,and continuously incorporated new variables such as common language,common boundary,and economic integration,and evolved into an extended gravity model.Since 2014,the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development(OECD)has begun to publish the Service Trade Restriction Index(STRI)and establish a corresponding database.The database contains measures in five different dimensions of 36 member states and 9 non-member states,and scores these measures to arrive at a final index to measure the level of openness and facilitation of a country's trade in services.In this context,it is of great significance to study the impact of the service trade restriction index system on the export of a country's service trade.Therefore,this paper takes the data of bilateral service trade export flows of 32 countries from 2014 to 2016 as an example.Based on the extended gravity model,the trade restriction index of bilateral trade countries is introduced to calculate the group regression.Specifically,this study has the following three objectives:First,a comparative study of sample developed and developing countries in terms of scale,structure,and liberalization,and find the gap between the two.Secondly,it deeply analyzes the mechanism of the STRI system's role in service trade exports,and elaborates on the impact of the five dimensions of STRI between import and export on the four major sectors.Thirdly,based on the extended gravity model,determine the determinants of the export flow of-bilateral service trade,verify the effect of STRI,and give targeted countermeasures.The research results show that the scale of service trade in developing countries is expanding continuously,but in terms of absolute value,proportion of world service trade,and speed of service trade development,there is still a big gap with developed countries.Among the factors affecting the export flows of bilateral service trade,the GDP and common language of importing and exporting countries have a positive impact on the export volume of service trade;the service trade restriction index and physical distance between import and export parties are significantly negatively correlated with service trade flows.The influence of the colonies and common borders is basically not significant.In addition,the differences between groups are also reflected in the fact that the export volume of trade in services between developed countries is not significantly affected by the per capita national income of importing and exporting countries.The export of service trade between developed countries is significantly negatively correlated with RTA,and the impact between developed and developing countries is not significant.The per capita national income of developing countries has no significant impact on the service trade exports of developed countries to developing countries.The development of service trade exports from developed countries to developed countries is inversely related to their own per capita national income.The innovations of this paper are as follows:(1)The existing research is mainly based on the perspective of international competitiveness,with Porter's "diamond model”as the theoretical support,and analyzes the factors affecting the export of a country's service trade.This article focuses on the impact of service trade barriers quantified by STRI on trade in services.(2)The difficulty of the impact of service trade barriers on service trade exports lies in the measurement of service trade barriers.The literature has adopted the tariff equivalent method and the entropy method to quantify,and there are few documents using STRI system.The reason is that the STRI database was released by the Economic Cooperation Organization in 2014 and it is difficult to obtain enough sample data.(3)The theory is rich,systematically expounds the mechanism of the STRl system's role in the export of service trade.(4)Model improvement,introducing the service trade restriction index as an influencing factor into the extended gravity model and innovating research methods.The structure of the article is as follows:The first chapter introduces the research background and significance,introduces the research content and methods,points out the research innovation and deficiencies;the second chapter summarizes the literature,sorts out the trade barriers of services,STRI system and service trade exports.The third chapter analyzes the status quo of service trade development between developed and developing countries from three aspects:scale,structure and liberalization.The fourth chapter discusses in detail the theoretical basis of STRI's role in service trade export,and expands.Based on the gravitational model,the empirical study of grouping is carried out.The fifth chapter concludes the conclusions and recommendations,gives the main conclusions of this paper,and proposes feasible countermeasures,in order to reduce the restriction of service trade in China and give full play to the export potential of China's service trade.