Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Micro-Data

Markus Kelle, Joern Kleinert (), Horst Raff and Farid Toubal
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Markus Kelle: Centro Studi Luca d�Agliano

No 335, Development Working Papers from Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milano

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: International Trade; Trade in Services; Supply Modes; Commercial Presence; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Enterprises; Firm Heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F15 L13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2012-07-16, Revised 2012-07-16
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