Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services: Evidence from German micro-data

Arbeitspapier

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and economically important determinant of the export participation and export mode choice. We also identify the role of industry- and country-specific determinants.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 3806

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Economic Integration ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
• Subject: international trade ; trade in services ; supply modes ; commercial presence foreign direct investment ; multinational enterprises ; firm heterogeneity

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kelle, Markus ; Kleinert, Jörn ; Raff, Horst ; Toubal, Farid
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
• (where): Munich
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/57965
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET