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Services Content of Japanese Trade
| Author | Kozo Kiyota |
|---|---|
| Date of Publication | 2003. 6 |
| No. | 2003-08 |
| Download | 167KB |
Contents Introduction
This paper investigates the scale of direct and indirect services trade, or services content, in Japanese trade between 1985 and 1995 using data from Japanese input-output tables. The empirical analysis reveals that the scale of R&D services in total services trade has been much higher throughout the period than has the scale of other services. Moreover, the R&D services content of Japanese merchandises exports amounted to 26,961 million US dollars in 1995, 84.3 percent of which was channeled through machinery exports. This result supports the assumption proposed by Coe and Helpman (1995) that R&D services are traded through machinery exports. (100 words)