Trade in Services and Trade in Goods: Differences and Complementarities

Carolina Lennon

No 53, wiiw Working Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, we explore empirically to what extent the determinants of trade in services differ from those of trade in goods. Second, by the use of instrumental variables, we explore potential complementarities between bilateral trade in goods and bilateral trade in services. Using a gravity framework, the main results show that bilateral trust and contract enforcement environment, networks, labour market regulations and variables denoting technology of communication have a higher impact on services trade than on goods trade. Finally, after using instrumental variables, we find that bilateral trade in goods explains bilateral trade in services the resulting estimated elasticity is close to 1. Reciprocally, bilateral trade in services also affects bilateral trade in goods, though to a lesser extent we find an estimated (positive) elasticity of 0.46.

Keywords: international trade in services; trade in goods; gravity equations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F15 L8 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages including 11 Tables and 3 Figures
Date: 2009-04
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