Abstract The measurement and determinants of China's bilateral service trade cost can be better explained for the service trade flow, which has important policy implications for China’s service trade opening. With the revised gravity model, this paper measures the bilateral service trade cost between China and G-7 countries during 1999~2007 by analyzing the panel data to seek the influence factors of China’s Foreign Service trade cost. It is shown that the bilateral service trade cost between China and G-7 is decreasing with a signs of acceleration of such decreasing after China’s join in the WTO; Space distance and service trade barriers are the main cause of bilateral service trade cost. Per capita income difference and common land and sea borders contributes to reduce the bilateral service trade cost whereas the impact of common trade group on the service trade cost is not obvious.
MA Ling-Yuan. The Measurement and Determinant of the Bilateral Service Trade Costs between China and G-7——Based on Revised Gravity Model. Economic Survey, 2012, 1(3): 070.
2012, Vol. 1 
