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Cross‐border and Foreign Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Microdata
Author(s) -
Kelle Markus,
Kleinert Jörn,
Raff Horst,
Toubal Farid
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1111/twec.12093
Subject(s) - microdata (statistics) , merge (version control) , german , balance of payments , payment , business , international trade , sample (material) , economics , international economics , trade in services , trade barrier , finance , census , history , population , chemistry , demography , archaeology , chromatography , sociology , computer science , information retrieval
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.