The publication was prepared by Francesca Spinelli and Sebastian Benz, with contributions from Håkan Nordström, Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås, Dorothée Rouzet and Jane Korinek, under the supervision of John Drummond.
The authors would like to thank the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in particular David Cavanough, Christine Schaeffer and Melanie Crosswell, the Australian Services Roundtable, the Australian delegation to the OECD and the Australian Bureau of Statistics for their co-operation.
The authors are very grateful to Nadim Ahmad, Ken Ash, Giuseppe Berlingieri, Ali Dadkhah, Janos Ferencz, Philip Hemmings, Luca Marcolin, David Morgan, Sam Paltridge and Frank van Tongeren for their insightful comments and useful suggestions.
Finally, the authors would like to thank Charles Cadestin, Frédéric Gonzales, Cassandra Oaten, Michèle Patterson, and Özge Taneli-Ziemann for their valuable statistical and editorial assistance.