Arbeitspapier
The interconnections between services and goods trade at the firm-level
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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: NBB Working Paper ; No. 329
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
Empirical Studies of Trade
Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
Industry Studies: Services: General
- Subject
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Trade in Services
Trade in Goods
Complementarity
Firm-level Analysis
Discrete Choice Models
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ariu, Andrea
Breinlich, Holger
Corcos, Gregory
Mion, Giordano
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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National Bank of Belgium
- (where)
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Brussels
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Ariu, Andrea
- Breinlich, Holger
- Corcos, Gregory
- Mion, Giordano
- National Bank of Belgium
Time of origin
- 2017