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

Markus Kelle, Joern Kleinert (joern.kleinert@uni-graz.at), Horst Raff and Farid Toubal

No 3806, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

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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