Publication

This publication merges German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. The authors use data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode - cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. They find that for firms in their sample productivity is both a statistically significant and economically important determinant of the export participation and export mode choice. They also identify the role of industry- and country-specific determinants.