Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121003 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
FIW Working Paper No. 2
Publisher: 
FIW - Research Centre International Economics, Vienna
Abstract: 
Working with a mix of panel data on goods and services trade for the OECD for 1994-2004, combined with social accounts data (i.e. data on intermediate linkages) for 78 countries benchmarked to 2001, we examine the role of services as inputs in manufacturing, with a particular focus on indirect exports of services through merchandise exports, and also on the related interaction between service sector openness and the overall pattern of manufacturing exports. From the crosssection, we also develop a set of stylized facts linking services to level of development and the density of intermediate linkages. We find significant and strong positive effects from increased business service openness (i.e. greater levels of imports) on industries like machinery, motor vehicles, chemicals and electric equipment, supporting the notion that off-shoring of business services may promote the competitiveness of the most skill and technology intensive industries in the OECD. Conversely, we find evidence of negative general equilibrium effects for sectors that are less service intensive.
Subjects: 
Producer Services
Service Sector Openess
Manufacturing linkages
Trade in Services
Indirect export of Services
Manufacturing Sector
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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