Measurement Of Barriers To Trade In Services Of China

Since the 1970s,with rapid development of trade in services,the barriers of trade in services gradually get people's attention.Many important countries attached to the development and liberalization of trade in services.So,how to measure the size of barriers has become a hot issue to evaluate the economic impact of those barriers.To study this issue deeper not only can offer reference to policy makers when opening service sector,but makes the foundation for related research and study.This paper contains five main parts as follows:Firstly,it generally reviews the connotation,classification,causes of barriers to trade in service.The author tries to give a whole view of barriers to trade in services.And then the author gives her own definition of the barriers to trade in services for this paper.Secondly,this paper introduces three methods,which are used to measure the barriers to trade in services.Three methods contain frequency measures,price-based measures,and quantity-based measures and then some compare and comments are given in the ending of this chapter.Thirdly,the author use price-based to measure barriers to trade in services in China and then compare the result with it which use frequency measure.Finally,the author studies on industrial concentration in two industries deeply.One is bank industry and the other is sales industry.And then the author compares and analyzes the industry and the relationship between the price index concentration and price-based index.