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

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

No 9016, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

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: 2012-06
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