Service Offshoring and Export Experience

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Marcolin, Luca; Ornelas, Emanuel
• 署名单位: ESSEC Business School; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development (OECD); Getulio Vargas Foundation; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaf020
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 1980-2016
• 关键词: INTERNATIONAL-TRADE; productivity evidence; COSTS; FIRMS; DYNAMICS; portrait; US; LIBERALIZATION; Importers; jobs

摘要

Service inputs significantly influence export costs and firm internationalisation. A new dataset on French firms' participation in global value chains reveals that experienced exporters are more likely to source services at destination and within their group. We rationalise these facts in a model where firms are initially uncertain about their export profitability and learn it while selling abroad. The effect is amplified in uncertain markets and in the presence of frictions to domestic sourcing. Offshoring firms, in turn, exhibit reduced volatility and are less likely to exit foreign markets. Our empirical findings strongly support these theoretical predictions.