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Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK

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  • Casadei, Patrizia
  • Vanino, Enrico
  • Lee, Neil

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Creative services have become an important, but understudied, part of global trade. This paper presents new evidence on the transformation, geography and industrial relatedness of creative service exports in the UK, using the Inquiry in International Trade in Services (ITIS) database. Creative services exports have grown over the past decade, but there are pronounced patterns of geographical specialization in the export of creative and non-creative services. We develop a measure of relatedness between exports of creative and non-creative services and of manufacturing goods. We argue that creative services are economically significant because of their interrelationship with other local sectors.

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  • Casadei, Patrizia & Vanino, Enrico & Lee, Neil, 2022. "Trade in creative services: relatedness and regional specialization in the UK," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 115568, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    creative services; trade; exports; services; relatedness;
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    JEL classification:

    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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