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

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  • Markus Kelle
  • Horst Raff

    (Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy) - CAU - Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel = Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel = Université Christian-Albrechts de Kiel)

  • Jörn Kleinert

    (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen = University of Tübingen)

  • Farid Toubal

    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ENS Cachan - École normale supérieure - Cachan)

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.

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  • Markus Kelle & Horst Raff & Jörn Kleinert & Farid Toubal, 2013. "Cross-Border and Foreign Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Micro-Data," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-00860199, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:cesptp:hal-00860199
    DOI: 10.1111/twec.12093
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
    • L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets

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