The interconnections between services and goods trade at the firm-Level

Ariu, Andrea, Breinlich, Holger, Corcos, Gregory and Mion, Giordano (2017) The interconnections between services and goods trade at the firm-Level. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1510). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

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In this paper we study how international trade in goods and services interact at the firm level. Using a rich dataset on Belgian firms during the period 1995-2005, we show that: i) firms are much more likely to source services and goods inputs from the same origin country rather than from different ones; ii) increases in barriers to imports of goods reduce firm-level imports of services from the same market, and conversely. We build upon a discrete-choice model of goods and services input sourcing that can reproduce these facts to design our econometric strategy and use the estimated model for counterfactual analysis. In particular, we look at the quantitative impact of reductions in goods and services barriers between the US and the EU. Our findings have important implications for the design of trade policy. They suggest that a liberalization of service trade can have quite direct and sizable effects on goods trade and vice-versa, and that jointly liberalizing goods and services trade brings about substantial complementarities

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://cep.lse.ac.uk/
Additional Information:	© 2017 The Authors
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
JEL classification:	F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F10 - General F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F13 - Commercial Policy; Protection; Promotion; Trade Negotiations; International Trade Organizations F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade L - Industrial Organization > L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing > L60 - General L - Industrial Organization > L8 - Industry Studies: Services > L80 - General
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2018 17:42
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2024 20:39
Funders:	Economic and Social Research Council
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/86602

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