02020cas a2200313 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022151 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781616350291 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Podpiera, Jiri. Barriers to Trade in Financial and Insurance Services : Evidence from the United Kingdom / Jiri Podpiera. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (21 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Distance, as a proxy for trade barriers, is found in many studies to matter even for weightless cross-border financial investments and lending, possibly due to the presence of information asymmetries. Its importance is tested in this paper using exports of all five broad categories of the U.K.'s financial and insurance services. No trade barriers are found for the bulk of the U.K.'s exports. Trade barriers are confirmed only for interest-bearing activities - being in line with available results in the literature. The positive effect of EU membership appears to be small. Notwithstanding the uncertainties, it suggests that post-Brexit disruptions of the U.K.'s export of financial and insurance services may be minor. Mode of access: Internet Banks imf Depository Institutions imf Empirical Studies of Trade imf Insurance imf Micro Finance Institutions imf Mortgages imf IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/260 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/260/001.2021.issue-260-en.xml IMF e-Library