Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173783 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
NBB Working Paper No. 330
Publisher: 
National Bank of Belgium, Brussels
Abstract: 
The increasing role of services in GDP results from the growing share of service industries, but also from the fact that firms produce services along with goods. This paper investigates the determinants of service provision by manufacturing firms. First, it develops a model of differentiated products with, on the demand side, complementarities between the firm's goods and services, and, on the supply side, rivalry in the allocation of expertise between the production of goods and the provision of services. Second, it provides an econometric assessment of the determinants of servitization for manufacturing firms, using a fractional Probit model with heterogeneity, controlling for endogeneity with respect to unobserved firm characteristics. Both the theoretical model and empirical estimates point to a non-linear relationship between servitization and firm productivity. The relationship is further shaped by the sector environment as well as intrinsic characteristics of the goods and services supplied.
Subjects: 
Services
multi-product firms
firm behavior
Total Factor Productivity
panel data analysis
non linear model
JEL: 
D24
D29
L11
L22
L23
L25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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