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

Markus Kelle, Joern Kleinert (), Horst Raff and Farid Toubal

No 1771, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

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)
Date: 2012
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