Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform: Political Economy Studies

Services markets remain highly regulated and international trade and investment is restricted. Previous works have identified the scope for significant gains from trade, yet those results are often debated and the progress on reform has been slow. Parts I and II in Priorities and Pathways in Services Reform help fill the gap in the research around this debate. Part I -- Quantitative Studies contains up-to-date assessment and evaluations of the impact of policy in a range of services markets in different countries (through cross-country modelling of the impacts of a reform program). Part II -- Political Economy Studies builds on this to address the understanding of what makes a reform successful, going beyond a quantification of the benefits of reform. This book fills that gap by reporting and reviewing the experience of reform across different sectors and countries. Ten key lessons are identified for successful reform. Readers will find fresh insights into managing complex issues in services reform.

Professor Christopher Findlay is the Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions at the University of Adelaide, and he was the Head of the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide from November 2005 to July 2011. Prior to that, he was Professor of Economics in the Asia Pacific School of Public Policy (now Crawford School) at the Australian National University.

His research interests concentrate on Australia's economic relations with Asia, with a special interest in the reform and industrialisation of the Chinese economy. He has been especially involved in research on the textiles, steel and air transport industries in East Asia and on the implications of developments in those industries for Australia. In 2011, he published the book Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (ANZCERTA) and Regional Integration together with Robert Scollay and Uwe Kaufmann.