Australia's restrictions on trade in financial services /
SUMMARY Financial services are important intermediate inputs for many other sectors of an economy. Financial services, among other things, facilitate transactions, pool and allocate financial resources, and provide services to manage risk. It is crucial that such services are supplied in a competiti...
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Melbourne :
Productivity Commission,
1998
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Staff research paper |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction - 2. Restrictions on trade in financial services
- The GATS framework Prudential and non-prudential measures An approach to identifying and classifying restrictions.
- 3. Australia's financial services measures.
- 3.1. Identifying and classifying Australia's measures.
- 3.2. Australia's measures as limitations on market access and national treatment.
- 3.3. Entry requirements for financial service providers.
- 3.4. Administration and funds management of public sector superannuation schemes.
- 3.5. Workers' compensation insurance. - 4. Quantifying Australia's financial services measures.
- 4.1. Applying an index to Australia's financial services measures.
- 4.2. Results for Australia.
- 4.3. Some qualifications. 4.4.
- Further research.
- Appendix A: Australia's limitations on market access for financial services.
- Appendix B. Australia's limitations on national treatment for financial services.