Construction of a National Unified Market and High-Quality Development of Trade in Services
This paper takes the construction of a unified national market as a starting point to empirically analyze the impact of expanding domestic demand on services trade by establishing a spatial panel data model using cross-country services trade data from 2006 to 2020.The findings show that increased market demand promotes the import and export of services,and the elasticity coefficient of service exports increases with the scale of market demand.Further,the elasticity of service imports is larger than that of service exports,and although service imports and exports both increase as market demand expands,the service-trade deficit does not decrease.In addition,compared to high-end services,the import and export of low-end services are more likely to be influenced by neighboring regions and have strong spatial effects;an environment in which the rule of law is strong is more conducive to the spillover on the import and export of services trade than an environment where it is weak.The findings reveal the differences in the impact of different factors on the import and export of services,providing a valuable reference point for policymaking and international trade decision-making.