The interconnections between services and goods trade at the firm-level

Arbeitspapier

In this paper we study how international trade in goods and services interact at the firm level. Using a rich dataset on Belgian firms during the period 1995-2005, we show that: i) firms are much more likely to source services and goods inputs from the same origin country rather than from different ones; ii) increases in barriers to imports of goods reduce firm-level imports of services from the same market, and conversely. We build upon a discrete-choice model of goods and services input sourcing that can reproduce these facts to design our econometric strategy. The results suggest that a liberalization of service trade has direct and sizable effects on goods trade and vice-versa. Moreover, sourcing goods and services from the same origin brings substantial complementarities to both.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: NBB Working Paper ; No. 329

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Trade: General ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General ; Industry Studies: Services: General
• Thema: Trade in Services ; Trade in Goods ; Complementarity ; Firm-level Analysis ; Discrete Choice Models

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Ariu, Andrea ; Breinlich, Holger ; Corcos, Gregory ; Mion, Giordano
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): National Bank of Belgium
• (wo): Brussels
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/173782
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ