Services Development and Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing
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Read this working paper in the Policy Research Working Papers series put out by the World Bank. The authors argue that services have to compete for resources alongside manufacturing, with implications for export industries.
Abstract
Most manufacturing activities use inputs from the financial and business services sectors. But these services sectors also compete for resources with manufacturing activities, provoking concerns about de-industrialization-inancial services in industrial countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, and business services in developing countries like India and the Philippines. This paper examines the implications of services development for the export performance of manufacturing sectors. It develops a methodology to quantify the indirect role of services in international trade in goods and constructs new measures of revealed comparative advantage based on domestic value added in gross exports. The paper shows that the development of financial and business services enhances the revealed comparative advantage of manufacturing sectors that use these services intensively but not that of other manufacturing sectors. It also finds that a country can partially overcome the handicap of an underdeveloped domestic services sector by relying more on imported services inputs. Thus, lower services trade barriers in developing countries can help to promote their manufacturing exports.
Source: Xuepeng Liu, Aaditya Mattoo, Zhi Wang, and Shang-Jin Wei, https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/29860?locale-attribute=en
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I. Introduction
On the face of it, services play a relatively small role in international trade. Conventional trade statistics show that services trade accounts for only one-fifth of cross-border trade. However, a significant part of goods trade includes trade in embodied services. In the United States, for example, more than a quarter of intermediate inputs purchased by manufacturers were from the services sector. For certain manufacturing sectors, such as computers and electronic products, this percentage - a measure of "services intensity" - is as high as 47.6 percent. Drawing on the Trade in Value Added Database, Miroudot and Cadestin show that services inputs account for about 37 percent of the value of manufacturing exports in the sample of countries covered. The development of the domestic services sector, as well as access to imported services inputs, can, therefore, be expected to influence comparative advantage in manufacturing trade. This paper seeks to understand this indirect role of services development drawing upon new data and new techniques.
The impact of services development is interesting because it is not straightforward. Since services are used as inputs in the production of manufactured goods, services development can help to increase manufacturing production. But since services and manufacturing compete for resources, the development of the former can be at the expense of the latter. For example, it is evident that the development of the services sector has drawn resources away from manufacturing not just in industrial countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, but also in developing countries like India.
We focus on two key services sectors: financial services and business services. Both have emerged as skill-intensive, dynamic, internationally traded services. These two services sectors are often regarded as the pillars of modern economies, and their value added shares in GDP have a strong positive correlation with countries' income levels (see Figure 1). These are also the two sectors which represent the tension we discussed above in the sharpest form. On the one hand, manufacturing performance is critically dependent on the domestic availability of these services.
On the other, these are the sectors that often provoke "de-industrialization" concerns – financial services in industrial countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, and business services in developing countries like India and the Philippines.
Well-functioning financial sectors are critical in mobilizing resources, stimulating investment, and at the same time helping firms (and households) better manage their risks. As shown in Appendix 3C, the business services sector covers a variety of critical of services activities, ranging from software consulting and data processing to management consultancy, engineering and R&D services. Intensive use of these modern services can help manufacturing firms increase productivity, reduce the cost of doing business, expand their choices within a longer geographic distance, differentiate their products from those of their competitors, strengthen their after-sale customer services, etc. USITC shows that business services accounted for nearly half of all services purchased by manufacturing sectors in the U.S. in 2008.
Our first hypothesis is that, while the overall effect of services development on the performance of manufacturing sectors can be ambiguous, its effect is more likely to be positive for manufacturing sectors that use services inputs more intensively. Furthermore, we distinguish embodied domestic services inputs from embodied foreign services inputs. When domestic firms have access to foreign services, they may at least partially bypass their own inefficient services provision by relying more on imported services inputs. As our second hypothesis, we expect to see a more positive effect of access to foreign services inputs on manufacturing export performance in countries with lower levels of domestic services development.
We develop a methodology to quantify the indirect role of services in international trade in goods using a method developed by Koopman, Wang, and Wei and Wang, Wei, and Zhu that generalizes the vertical specialization measures proposed by Hummels, Ishii and Yi. We use revealed comparative advantage (RCA) to measure the competitiveness of manufacturing sectors. Following Koopman, Wang, and Wei and Wang, Wei, and Zhu, we improve on the traditional Balassa RCA and construct new measures of RCA based on domestic value added in gross exports by taking into account both domestic production sharing and international production sharing.
In our econometric analysis of the impact of services development on RCA of manufacturing sectors, the key explanatory variable is the interaction between a measure of the development of financial (or business) services and the financial (or business) services-intensity of each manufacturing sector. We find that domestic services development has a mixed effect on manufacturing export RCA: in manufacturing sectors with low embodied services, services development reduces manufacturing export RCA; however, in sectors with a high degree of embodied services, services development increases manufacturing RCA. Figure 2 provides a visual illustration of this relationship in the case of financial services. We see a negative association between manufacturing RCA and a measure of financial development for a sector with low embodied financial services, but a positive association for a sector with high embodied financial services.
In the second hypothesis, we consider the role of services imports in helping overcome the limitations of domestic services markets. We begin by showing that a country's access to foreign services markets measured by the share of foreign embodied services is negatively correlated to countries' services trade barriers. Using the World Bank Services Trade Restriction Indexes (STRI), Figure 3 shows a negative relationship between financial services trade barriers and the share of embodied foreign financial services among embodied domestic and foreign financial services for the textile sector of 40 countries in 2000, using data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD). A similar pattern holds for other manufacturing sectors and years. We then find that in countries with lower levels of services development, manufacturing exports benefit more from access to foreign services inputs. Our result suggests that lower services trade barriers may help developing countries to bypass their inefficient domestic services provision and promote their manufacturing exports through inter-sectoral linkages.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We review the relevant literature in Section II. In Section III, we present our hypotheses and carry out the empirical analysis. We conclude in Section IV.
II. Literature review
This paper is related to at least two strands in the literature: one is on the estimation of services embodied in traded goods; the other is on the role of services in economic development.
Research on services embodied in traded goods, based on the Leontief inverse, can be traced back to Grubel who examined Canadian exports in 1973 and 1983. He found that, over that decade, Canadian embodied services exports had increased substantially to the point where Canada enjoyed a surplus in embodied services trade but had a deficit in direct trade in services. Urata and Kiyota examined the embodied services in total gross trade for several major services categories of five Asian economies – China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand − in 1990. They found that embodied services accounted for a large share of total services trade for each country. Francois and Woerz examined the role of services as inputs in manufacturing sectors. They found a significant and strong positive effect of increased business services openness (i.e. greater levels of imports) on some industries, supporting the notion that offshoring of business services may promote the competitiveness of the most skill and technology intensive industries in the OECD countries. Recently, Francois et al. demonstrated that the ratio of value added exports to gross exports is significantly higher than one in services sectors, suggesting an important role of services sectors in downstream sectors through forward inter-industrial linkages. Their studies cover many countries and provide some interesting insights.
These early studies used single national input-output tables, rather than an international input-output table as in this paper, so they could not break down the inputs according to their origins or consider the mismeasurement in services inputs due to two-way trade in intermediate products. In addition, they can only consider how much a service sector's value-added is embodied in manufacturing exports regardless whether parts of the exported value-added return back to the exporting country or not. In the current paper, we make use of the newly constructed international input-output tables by the WIOD team to measure more precisely the embodied services and indirect trade through other sectors. With the multi-country input-output table and the information about the origins of inputs, we can study embodied domestic and foreign services and their interaction with domestic services development. Stehrer, Foster, and Vries and Timmer et al. also use a similar method and the WIOD data to estimate the shares of services, income and jobs in a country that are directly and indirectly related to the production of manufacturing goods, but their work is primarily descriptive without connecting embodied services to the performance of manufacturing sectors.
On the role of services in economic development, Hoekman and Mattoo review the literature, focusing on channels through which openness to trade in services may increase the productivity of a firm, an industry, and an economy as a whole. The existing studies show that access to low-cost and high-quality producer services can promote economic growth. Based on an industry-level analysis of the U.S., Amit and Wei find that services offshoring by high-income countries tends to raise their manufacturing sectors' productivity. While services offshoring has both positive and negative effects on domestic employment, Amiti and Wei show that, at least for the case of the United States, it tends to enhance domestic employment on average. Arnold, Javorcik, and Mattoo, using firm-level data from the Czech Republic for the period 1998-2003, find a positive effect of services sector reforms on the productivity of domestic firms in downstream manufacturing. The manufacturing-services linkage is measured using information on the degree to which manufacturing firms rely on intermediate inputs from services industries. Arnold et al. use a similar methodology to show that services reforms had significant and positive effects on the productivity of manufacturing firms in India. Fernandes and Paunov, using the annual manufacturing survey of Chilean firms, find a positive effect of substantial FDI inflows in producer services sectors on the total factor productivity (TFP) of Chilean manufacturing firms. Their findings also suggest that services FDI fosters innovation activities in manufacturing and offers opportunities for laggard firms to catch up with industry leaders. Debaere et al. find that greater availability of services increases manufacturing firms' foreign sourcing of materials, which may in turn enhance manufacturing productivity. Using Swedish firm-level data, Lodefalk shows that in-house and outsourced services help to increase export intensity measured by the share of merchandise exports in total sales. Finally, a recent paper by Bamieh et al. shows that more intensive use of producer services appears to be positively associated with resilience to greater import competition.
In this paper, we study particularly the roles of financial services and business services in manufacturing production. On financial services, Rajan and Zingales and a number of follow-up studies find that industries that are particularly dependent on financing grow relatively faster in countries with more developed financial markets. Our approach differs from Rajan and Zingales in two major ways. First, we consider modern business services sectors in addition to financial services. For most countries in our sample, business services as a share of GDP are generally on par with or greater than financial services. Second, even for financial services, we measure the intensity of its use in manufacturing sectors differently from Rajan and Zingales in order to maintain consistency with our measure of business services intensity. In particular, their measure of financial dependence is about the intrinsic needs for externally raised funds relative to total funding needs for long-term investment. In an input-output context, the financial services sector only provides financial services in value added terms, rather than the amount of external finance raised. Financial services may facilitate an investment deal, but it is different from investment. Therefore, their measures and ours reflect two different concepts, and the scatter plot in Figure 4 shows a weak correlation between the two measures.
Some more recent papers also examine the role of finance in the economy. Ju and Wei show in a general equilibrium model that, for economies with low-quality institutions, finance is a key driver of the real economy and a source of comparative advantage. Buera et al. demonstrate in a model that sectors with more financing needs are disproportionately vulnerable to financial fricti A growing recent literature on credit constraints demonstrates that access to external finance helps to increase firms' export performance (see, Amiti and Weinstein, 2011, among others). Business services cover a wide range of activities as listed in Appendix 3C. There are many case studies on how a certain type of business services promotes economic performance at the firm, state, or national level. However, comprehensive empirical analyses covering most of the major economies at a detailed industry level are rare, probably owing to the lack of detailed services data.
In the existing literature, the estimation of embodied services and the recent empirical analyses on their linkage to manufacturing export performance are somewhat disconnected. The former estimates the embodied services but does not examine empirically how services input intensity affects the performance of downstream sectors. The latter, on the other hand, uses some proxies of inter-sectoral linkage or the direct inputs in gross output to examine the effects of services reforms on downstream manufacturing sectors without quantifying precisely services input intensity. The current paper connects the two literatures: we measure precisely services input intensity as the ratio of embodied services to manufacturing value-added, considering both direct and indirect input usages; then, we directly quantify the effect of services development on the export performance of manufacturing sectors. In addition, we also consider the interaction between embodied domestic services and embodied foreign services and how they affect manufacturing export performance, depending on countries' domestic services development and services input intensity.
Finally, the second hypothesis in this paper considers how access to foreign services markets may help developing countries to bypass their possibly inefficient domestic services provision. By distinguishing domestic from foreign services input, we implicitly assume that they are incomplete substitutes. Such a bypass effect is also discussed in a theoretical model by Ju and Wei, which derives the conditions under which financial globalization can serve as a substitute for reforms of the domestic financial system. This is also broadly consistent with the theory of comparative advantage – countries with underdeveloped services sectors benefit from imported services, but our paper shows that these benefits may go beyond services sectors through intersectoral linkages.
III. Empirical analysis
In this section, we test empirically the following two hypotheses.
Hypothesis 1: the effect of domestic services development on manufacturing export competitiveness is larger (more positive) for manufacturing sectors that use services as inputs more intensively.
Hypothesis 2: the effect of embodied foreign services inputs on manufacturing export competitiveness is more positive in countries with lower levels of domestic services development, especially for manufacturing sectors with high services input intensity.
Although the above two hypotheses seem to be straightforward, the theoretical predictions are actually not certain, as discussed in the introduction section. The development in services can draw resources away from manufacturing sectors and can also enhance the productivity of manufacturing when more productive services are used as inputs. Whether the net effect is positive or negative becomes an empirical question. As for the second hypothesis, the effects of foreign services on domestic manufacturing sectors can also be manifold and conflicting among them. The net effect depends on many factors, such as the development level of domestic services sectors. We expect to see a more beneficial role of imported services inputs in countries with less efficient services sectors.
In the following, we will lay out our empirical strategy, explain the measures of the key variables, describe the data, and discuss the regression results.
III.1 Empirical strategy
In our empirical analysis, we use RCA to measure the export competitiveness of individual manufacturing sectors. We will explain later in this paper how we modify the conventional definition of RCA after stating our specification.
To test
Hypothesis 1, we estimate the effect of services development on manufacturing export performance (RCA), and analyze how this effect depends
on service input intensity as measured by the ratio of embodied domestic
services in total final demand to manufacturing valueadded (or simply
); see a later subsection for more
details). Our baseline regression specification is:
Hypothesis 1
suggests a positive can be negative
because a more developed services sector (a higher D) in a country could imply a higher services export RCA which in
turn could lead to a lower manufacturing export RCA.
Our second
hypothesis suggests that the effect of D
on RCA depends not only on SII, but also on the access to foreign
services markets. To capture the relative importance of foreign services inputs
compared to domestic services inputs, we measure access to foreign services
markets by the share of embodied foreign services in total embodied (domestic
and foreign) services in a manufacturing sector of a country (forsh). To ease the interpretation of
the results, we run regressions using the subsample for only the manufacturing
sectors with high services input intensity because services development and
services inputs are less relevant when a sector uses little services as inputs.
We also run the same regressions for all of the other sectors with low to show how the results differ. The
specification of the regressions is similar to equation (1), except that we
replace
with forsh as follows:
III.2 Measures of RCA
The conventional definition of the RCA measure was first proposed by Balassa. Export RCA of country j's sector k is defined as the share of exports (X) of sector k in j's total exports relative to the world average share of the same sector k in world exports as follows:
where G is the total number of countries in the world. The RCA measure has been used extensively in the literature to measure the competitiveness of a country in a particular sector. When the RCA exceeds one, the country is deemed to have a revealed comparative advantage in that sector; when it is below one, the country is deemed to have a revealed comparative disadvantage in that sector.
Koopman, Wang,
and Wei and Wang, Wei, and Zhu point out that the traditional RCA ignores both
domestic production sharing and international production sharing. First, it
ignores the fact that a country-sector's value added may be exported indirectly
via the country's exports in other sectors. Second, it ignores the fact that a
country-sector's gross exports partly reflect foreign content. A conceptually correct measure of comparative
advantage needs to exclude foreign-originated value added and pure double
counted terms in gross exports, and to include indirect exports of a sector's
value added through other sectors of the exporting country. When a country uses
imported intermediate goods intensively to produce for its exports, Koopman,
Wang and Wei show that RCA based on gross exports can be misleading. The
problem of double counting of certain value added components in the official
trade statistics suggests that the traditional computation of RCA could be
noisy. The gross export decomposition method suggested by Koopman, Wang, and Wei
provides a way to remove the distortion of double counting by focusing on
domestic value-added in exports. Following Wang, Wei, and Zhu, we calculate RCA
based on domestic valued added (DVA) in
gross exports, rather than gross exports, for country i in sector k as
follows .
The above new RCA measure is the share of a country-sector's forward linkage-based measure of domestic value added in exports in the country's total domestic value added in exports relative to that sector's total forward linkage-based domestic value added in exports from all countries as a share of global value added in exports. The domestic value added (DVA) in gross exports in the above formula is the sum of value added exports (VAX) and returned domestic value added consumed at home (RDV). Because it describes the characteristics of a country's production or total domestic factor content in output, it does not depend on where the output is absorbed. By comparison, VAX are produced at home but ultimately absorbed abroad. For those applications in which a production-based RCA is the right measure as in this paper, we should use DVA in exports rather than VAX to compute RCA.
In addition, RCA based on gross exports (the dependent variable) can cause an endogeneity problem because the embodied services (an explanatory variable) are part of gross manufacturing exports. In our paper, manufacturing RCA is based on the value added by the factors employed in manufacturing sectors, not including the embodied services in gross exports which are contributed by the factors employed in services sectors, so our approach is free from the above-mentioned endogeneity problem. Intuitively, we focus on how services help factors employed in manufacturing sectors to create value by improving their productivity, reducing costs, or both.
III.3: Measurement of embodied services and services input intensity (SII)
We compute embodied services in manufacturing sectors using a method developed by Koopman, Wang and Wei and Wang, Wei, and Zhu that generalizes the vertical specialization measures proposed by Hummels, Ishii and Yi. Assume a world with G countries, in which each country produces goods in N tradable sectors. Goods and services produced in each sector can be consumed directly or used as intermediate inputs, and each country exports both intermediate and final goods to other countries. All gross outputs (X) produced by a country must be used as intermediate goods/services or as final goods/services (F), i.e.,
where is the
gross output vector of country
is the
vector for final goods and services produced in country
and consumed in country
, and
is the
input-output coefficient matrix, giving intermediate use in
of goods and services produced in
.
The G-country, N-sector production, and trade system can be written as an inter-country
input-output (ICIO) model in block matrix notation as follows.
After rearranging, we have
where is an
identity matrix, and
denotes the
block Leontief inverse matrix, which is the total requirement matrix that gives the amount of gross outputs in producing country
required for a one-unit increase in final demand in destination country
.
Let be the
direct value-added coefficient vector. Each element of
gives the ratio of direct domestic value-added to gross output (exports) for country i at the sector level. This is equal to one minus the intermediate input share from all countries (including domestically produced intermediates):
where is an
unit vector of 1 . Putting all
in the diagonal and denoting it with a hatsymbol
, we can define a GN
GN matrix of direct domestic value-added coefficients for all countries as,
Putting final demand in the diagonals, we can define another GN×GN matrix of all countries'
final demand as
Then the decomposition of value-added in final demand can be conducted by the following
equation:
where is a
square matrix that gives the estimates of sector and country sources of value-added in a country's total final demand. Each block matrix
is an
square matrix, with each element representing the value-added from a source sector of a source country directly or indirectly used by an absorbing sector in a destination country's total final demand (both domestic and foreign). Because we assume that the same technology is used in the production meeting a country's domestic demand and foreign demand (exports), we use total final demand, which is the sum of domestic final demand and final export demand, to calculate embodied services ratios.
Based on equation (9), we create the following measure of domestic services input intensity in manufacturing sectors in country j:
where , an element in equation
, refers to country j's domestic services (superscript
s) values embodied in country j's total final demand in the manufacturing sector (superscript );
is the total value-added created by the factors employed in the manufacturing sector of the absorbing country
(or the manufacturing GDP in country
).
defined in formula (10) is a scalar if
and
refer to a specific services and manufacturing sector respectively, in a country
in a given year. The numerator on the right-hand side of formula (10) refers to the value added contributed directly and indirectly by the factors employed in a services sector, while the denominator measures the value added contributed by factors employed in a manufacturing sector. Therefore, the denominator is not a part of the numerator and the
measure is not bounded by one, although it is always less than one in the data. It would be bounded by one if we used the gross manufacturing output in the denominator, and the
of one services sector would likely be negatively correlated to the
of other goods or services sectors, and so omitted variable bias can be a problem if we do not include all other sectors in our analysis. The strategy we adopt to measure
as in formula (10) can help us to avoid this problem and keep our specification simple.
It is tempting to
use a country's own services input intensity directly in the regression. But there are a number of issues
with such a strategy.
of a
country with underdeveloped services sectors (e.g., financial repression) may
not be able to capture the required services input intensity along the
manufacturing production possibility frontier. Hence, instead of using
countries' own services input intensities, we use U.S. services input intensity
for all the countries under the assumption that the U.S. is among the countries
with the least financial and business services transaction costs and frictions.
If inter-sectoral linkage is considered as a feature of the production
technology, it should be the same across countries in the absence of services
under-development. Adopting a similar strategy, Rajan and Zingales measure
industries' dependence on external funds using only U.S. data for all countries
covered by their analysis. Figure 5 shows a scatter plot of the domestic
financial services input intensity in manufacturing against the business
services input intensity for each of the WIOD countries in 2005. As we expect,
U.S. embodied services ratios are among the highest for both financial and
business services.
Another problem of using countries' own services input intensity is a potential endogeneity issue because a country's embodied services and services development can also be affected by its own manufacturing performance. For example, a country like India with comparative disadvantage in manufacturing may choose to specialize in services, which in turn will promote services development and reduce embodied services due to the weakness of the manufacturing sectors. When we use only U.S. embodied services, the feedback or reverse causality to the U.S. embodied services from other countries' manufacturing export RCA will be less a concern. In addition, we will drop U.S. observations from our regressions to further alleviate the endogeneity problem. Finally, as another justification for using U.S. measures, the U.S. is arguably one of the countries with the most reliable data.
We will either
use the time-varying U.S. services input intensities or take their averages
over years. An advantage of the former measure is that it retains the time variations,
while the later measure can smooth temporal fluctuations and hence is less
sensitive to outliers. The variations in the U.S. services input intensities
over the years are small for most of the WIOD sectors and some of the
input-output data in the WIOD are filled in based on interpolation, so we will
take the averaged measure as the benchmark and use the time-varying measure
only as a robustness check. When average U.S. is used, this
variable will drop out of regressions with sector or timevarying sector fixed
effects. When time-varying sector fixed effects are used,
will also be
dropped.
An important caveat is that even a measure based on U.S. data is still a proxy intending to capture the potential linkage between services and manufacturing sectors. A noisy measure, however, should create a bias against finding a significant effect of services intensity on manufacturing RCA. Should we be able to find a better measure, the effect is likely to be even stronger.
In our empirical analysis, we also use the share of foreign embodied services in the total embodied domestic and foreign services as follows (for country j):
The denominator in equation (11) sums over all source countries
, including
itself, while the numerator leaves out country
's own (domestic) embodied services.
III.4 Measures of domestic services development (D)
Our main services development measure (D) is defined as the ratio of services value-added to GDP. Figure 1 shows a clear positive relationship between income level and the shares of financial and business services in GDP. It seems reasonable to use their shares in GDP to measure the level of development of these sectors.
Alternatively, we use the average value added per worker to measure domestic services development. It is calculated as total value added divided by total number of employees for financial or business services based on the data from the WIOD and its Socio Economic Accounts. It is commonly used as a measure for labor productivity in services sectors, which should be closely linked to the levels of services development.
We also use other measures of services development to check the robustness of our results when data are available. Following the tradition in the literature, as in Rajan and Zingales, we adopt two alternative measures for financial services development using the data from the World Bank Global Financial Development Database (GFDD). GFDD is an extensive data set of financial system characteristics for 203 economies from 1960 to 2010. The first measure is the bank private credit to GDP ratio, which is defined as the share of financial resources provided to the private sector by domestic banks in a country's GDP, originally from the International Financial Statistics of the IMF. The second measure is the share of bank private credit and stock market capitalization in GDP. Stock market capitalization refers to the total value of all listed shares in a stock market based on Standard & Poor's Global Stock Markets Factbook and supplemental S&P data.
III.5 Data and Some Stylized Facts on Embodied Services
The primary data source for this study is the WIOD which covers 35 industries for 40 countries over 1995-2007, so our data structure is a panel at the country-sector level over 13 years. The original 2103 version of the WIOD data covers years 1995-2009, but we drop the data for 2008-2009 to avoid potential complication resulting from the 2008 global financial crisis. We consider all the manufacturing sectors (WIOD sectors 3-16), and focus on two types of modern services in this paper: financial intermediation services (WIOD sector 28) and other business services sector (WIOD sector 30).
To illustrate the importance of embodied services and to motivate our empirical analysis, we first show in Appendix 1A some data on the gross exports (X) and value added exports (VAX) of financial services for some WIOD countries over 1995-2007. We further separate VAX into direct value-added exports (dVAX) and indirect value-added exports through all other sectors (indVXP). The last row reports the world total for all the WIOD economies. Overall, VAX of services are 53 percent higher than the gross exports, and indirect VAX are 88 percent higher than the direct VAX. Among the 40 WIOD countries/regions excluding ROW, only three of them (Ireland, Luxembourg, and U.K.) have direct VAX higher than indirect VAX. The BRICs (Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, and China), Japan, the Republic of Korea, Lithuania, Turkey, and Taiwan, China, have much higher indirect VAX than direct VAX (especially China, Russia, and Turkey). Financial services in these countries may have reached an intermediate level of development at which they can compete in the domestic market but not yet internationally. It could also be that restrictions on cross-border imports in these countries oblige goods producers to use domestically produced services. For instance, if domestic firms in China have no easy access to foreign financial services due to high trade barriers, they will have to use domestic financial services (e.g., loans from state-owned banks).
Appendix 1B for business services, analogous to Appendix 1A, offers a similar pattern. Some emerging economics (e.g., Mexico, Russia, and especially Turkey) and Japan have much higher indirect business services VAX than direct VAX. Most of the high-income countries such as the U.S. and the U.K. export large magnitudes of business services both directly and indirectly. By comparison, developing or emerging economies export significantly less business services, with the exception of India. India has developed an internationally competitive business services industry which has large direct VAX but its indirect VAX are small due to the relatively weak manufacturing sectors.
Because financial intermediation services and other business services sectors cover many different types of services, as listed in Appendices 3B and 3C, measuring their level of development is not straightforward. In this paper, we measure financial or business services development as the share of financial or business services value-added in a country's total valueadded in all sectors (or GDP). The logic is simple: services sectors, especially modern ones like financial and business services, usually account for larger shares in total value added in countries with more developed services sectors. Keeping in mind that this may not always be the case for other industries such as agricultural and manufacturing industries as suggested by the literature on structural change, among others).
We control for the levels of countries' overall development using the GDP per capita data from the Penn World Tables. Other determinants of manufacturing RCA considered in this paper include the following: productivity measured by total factor productivity (TFP), scale economy measured by a manufacturing sector's employment in logarithms, factor endowment variables including capital-labor ratio (K/L) and skill ratio (SKratio, defined as the share of the wage payment to high skill workers in total wage payment), relative wages in manufacturing sectors defined as a country's average wage per worker over world average wage per worker. These variables vary across countries and sectors. The data for these variables are obtained from or estimated based on the WIOD Social-Economic Account database (SEA). The total factor productivity (TFP) growth rate for each WIOD manufacturing sector is estimated using the dual approach as in Hsieh. It is calculated as a weighted average of the growth rates of labor prices (w) and capital prices (r), weighted by the share of payment to labor (L) and capital (K). For this method to be valid, no assumptions are needed for the relations of factor prices to social marginal products or about the production function form as long as the total factor payments add up to total output (i.e., Y = r*K + w*L).
Finally, we also include a measure for GVC participation. Wang et al. propose a framework to decompose total production activities to different types, depending on whether they are for pure domestic demand, traditional international trade, simple GVC activities, and complex GVC activities. Then they construct indices of GVC participation to measure the degree of a sectors’ GVC participation – a concept similar to the vertical specialization (VS1) as in Hummels, Ishii, and Yu but with a few important improvements. We include a measure of forward industrial linkage-based GVC participation to estimate how a country/sector’s engagement in GVC activities strengthens its overall export performance.
Table 1 provides the descriptive statistics of these variables and their definitions.
III.6 Empirical results
In Table 2, we estimate the specification in equation (1). The dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA calculated based on DVA in gross exports. The U.S. domestic services input intensity is averaged over 1995-2007 and treated as time-invariant. The financial (business) services development measure is defined as the ratio of U.S. financial (business) services valueadded to U.S. GDP. Because the embodied services measures are based on U.S. data, we drop the observations for the U.S. from the regressions to alleviate the potential endogeneity problem. In the first three columns, we consider financial services (f), business services (b), and the combined financial and business services (fb) respectively. Country fixed effects, year dummies, and manufacturing sector dummies are all included in the first three regressions. Standard errors are always robust to heteroscedasticity and are also clustered by country*sector to address the potential serial correlation in the error terms for a particular country-sector across years.
The coefficient
of services development is negative and significant in the first regression for
financial services, but not significant for business services in the second
regression. The coefficient of the key interaction term is always positive and
highly significant. The results imply that financial services development
reduces manufacturing RCA when embodied financial services are sufficiently
low. This is not surprising given the definition of RCA: services development
tends to increase a country's services export RCA and in turn should lead to
lower manufacturing export RCA when manufacturing sectors do not benefit much
from services development due to low services input intensity. When embodied
services are sufficiently high, services development can actually increase
manufacturing RCA. These results provide strong support for our first
hypothesis. We can calculate easily the cutoff value of. Taking regression (1) as an example, the cutoff
is
about 0.046 as compared to its average value (0.035) reported in Table 1. The
last three columns of Table 2 are analogous to the first three regressions
except that we include time-varying country and time-varying sector fixed
effects. As a result, services development measures and log(GDP/capita) are
dropped from the regressions. The three interaction terms remain positive and
highly significant, with similar magnitude as in the first three
regressions.
The control variables in Table 2 have the expected signs. Manufacturing productivity (TFP), the measure of scale economy (log(emp)), capital–labor ratio (K/L), and GVC participation increase manufacturing RCA. Other variables, including log(GDP/capita), relative wage, and the skill ratio, do not have significant effects.
In Table 3A, Table 3B, and Table 4, we perform various robustness checks. In Table 3A, we use an alternative measure of services development defined as average value added per worker in financial or business services. Our previous results continue to hold well. The interaction term D*SII is always positive and significant at the 1% or 5% level. Their magnitude is much smaller because the average values of the new services development measures are much bigger as shown in Table 1.
In Table 3B, we
replace the services development measures in Table 2 by another two alternative
measures for financial services as discussed in Section III.4. Because such a
measure is not available for the corresponding WIOD business services sector,
we perform this robustness check only for financial services. Our previous
findings hold very well with or without timevarying fixed effects. The
estimated cutoff (about 0.04) is
similar to what we got from Table 2.
In Table 4, we
examine the sensitivity of our results to alternative measures of services
input intensity. The time-varying country and sector fixed effects are used in
all of the regressions, so both
and D variables are dropped. We
consider here financial and business services together. In the first
regression, we replace the average
U.S.
with time-varying U.S.
;
our main findings remain unchanged, with a slightly smaller coefficient of the
interaction term than the corresponding one reported in column (3) of Table 2.
Although the services input intensity of the U.S. is arguably the best choice
to capture the role of financial and business services in manufacturing
sectors, it is still useful to check the robustness of the results when
countries' own
measures are used. Regression (2) in Table 4 is analogous to
those in the first column, except that we replace U.S.
with each country's
own
(time-varying). We no longer drop the U.S. observations from this
regression. The interaction term remains positive and significant at the 1%
level, but the magnitude of the coefficient is much smaller than the one
reported in the first column, probably because a country's own
may not
capture well the potential role of services in manufacturing sectors if
services sectors are under-developed as we would expect. In the last column, we
use the average
of the U.K., another developed country with competitive
services sectors. The results are similar to those when the U.S. data are used:
the magnitude of the
's
coefficient is similar to what is reported in Table 2 (30.3 vs. 27.72).
Next, we test for the second hypothesis, which states that countries may bypass their own inefficient domestic services sectors by relying on imported foreign services. As defined in equation (11), the share of embodied foreign services in total embodied services (forsh) is used to measure the degree of a country's access to foreign services markets. Because our story is relevant only to the sectors that use a significant amount of services as inputs, we consider only the first seven manufacturing sectors with high services input intensity as listed in Appendix 4, and expect to see a stronger bypass effect than from sectors with lower services input intensity. We examine how the interaction between foreign services and domestic services development affects manufacturing export RCA based on specification (2) and report the results in Table 5A. As in the previous table, in the first three columns, we include separate country, year, and sector fixed effects; the first two regressions consider financial and business services respectively; and the third regression combines the two types of services. The coefficients of D*forsh are always negative and significant at the 1% or 5% level. This shows that the benefit of foreign services inputs on manufacturing export RCA decreases with the level of domestic services development, suggesting that foreign and domestic services inputs are at least partially substitutable. Together with a positive coefficient of forsh, this also implies that the access to foreign services can help a country to bypass under-developed domestic services provision. In the last three columns of Table 5A, we include time-varying country and sector fixed effects. As a result, we cannot estimate the coefficient of D any longer. The absolute value of the estimated coefficients of the interaction term is even larger, although it is statistically less significant for financial services.
If we include some additional sectors with medium levels of services input intensity, the above results are still robust, although a bit weaker as expected. For instance, including also sectors 9 and 7 does not lead to a dramatic change in the results, except that the interaction term turns slightly less significant in the regression for financial services. We also run similar regressions as in Table 5A for the other seven manufacturing sectors with low financial and business services input intensity as listed in Appendix 4. For these sectors, services development and access to foreign services markets should matter less. The results are reported in Table 5B. As expected, forsh and its interaction with D are mostly insignificant at the 10% level. Although the interaction term is significant at the 10% level for business services in column (2), the magnitude of the coefficient in absolute value is smaller than the corresponding coefficient in Table 5A. These results provide further support to the second hypothesis.
IV. Concluding remarks
In this paper, we examine how the development of domestic services sectors may affect the export performance of downstream manufacturing sectors, taking into account the services input intensities of manufacturing sectors. We focus on two types of modern services, i.e., financial services and business services, whose shares in an economy normally increase with the level of a country's development.
We show that the indirect exports of services are surprisingly high for a number of countries, especially developing or emerging economies, even though most of these countries' direct exports of services are relatively small. We also find that the manufacturing sectors that use these services intensively as inputs benefit more from domestic services development. These findings suggest that policy makers should take into account the linkages among sectors, not look at them in isolation on a single sector basis as can happen with the "silo" approach to trade negotiations.
Industrial countries have been strong in exporting services, both directly and indirectly. For example, according to Appendix 1B, the U.S. is not only the largest direct exporter of business services in the world, but also the largest indirect exporter of business services (actually twice as large), suggesting an important role of business services in U.S. manufacturing activities. However, developing and emerging economies have significantly lagged, with the only the exception of India in direct exports of business services. Services development in these countries not only strengthens their services sectors but also promotes manufacturing and other goods producing sectors. Countries like China that may be concerned with the sustainability of their manufacturing export success may consider building stronger services sectors as a way to upgrade their manufacturing sectors to an even higher level. According to Appendix 1B, China's business services exports in value added terms, relative to its exports in gross terms, are less impressive compared to the corresponding figure for financial services shown in Appendix 1A. Both its direct and indirect business services exports are only 8-9 percent of the corresponding numbers of the U.S. Drawing from the firm-level data in ORBIS, Miroudot and Cadestin show that China is the only country in their sample which has a majority of the manufacturing firms (77 percent in 2013) selling only goods, with little bundling of goods and services such as manufacturing and distribution services, as seen with Apple iPhones/iPads and Apple Stores. To strengthen the manufacturing sector, countries need to focus not just on manufacturing production, but also on services upgrading including but not limited to R&D, marketing, advertising, inventory management, quality control, production scheduling, after-sale technical supports, and follow-up customer services.
With significant improvement in transportation and communication technologies and increasing services outsourcing activities, some developing countries such as India have developed competitive services sectors. For example, Indian services RCA calculated based on DVA in gross exports are either greater than one (financial services) or close to one (business services), much bigger than the corresponding numbers for other developing economies such as China. For countries like India, our paper suggests that the manufacturing sectors that use these services intensively tend to have a comparative advantage. However, different from most of the other WIOD countries, Indian gross exports of business services are actually larger than its total value added exports, suggesting relatively little embodied business services in other sectors, as shown by the direct and indirect ratio of Indian business services exports in Appendix 1B. There is plenty of room left for India and similar countries to take advantage of their competitive services sectors during their industrialization process. This illustrates the importance for policy makers and entrepreneurs to understand the implications of inter-sectoral linkages.
We also provide evidence for a bypass effect, that is, countries may bypass their inefficient domestic services sectors by relying more on imported services inputs. This suggests that nations with under-developed services may take advantage of globalization in services. Countries that hesitate to liberalize their services sectors in hopes of protecting their inefficient domestic services sectors may hurt the competitiveness of their manufacturing sectors.
Although this paper focuses only on the services-manufacturing linkages, many other important research questions could also be studied using a similar methodology. With the intercountry input-output tables, we have complete information on how countries and sectors are interlinked to each other. We expect to see more and more studies along this line of research.
Figures and Tables
Figure 1
Figure 1: Scatter plots of the shares of services value added in GDP against income level, for financial and business services, year 2005
Figure 2
Figure 2: RCA against Bank Private Credit to GDP (Df1), 2005
Figure 3
Figure 3: Correlation between services trade barriers and the share of embodied foreign services for textiles sector in year 2000
Notes: The vertical axis represents the share of
embodied foreign financial services among the embodied foreign and domestic
financial services for year 2000. The horizontal axis represents financial
services trade restriction index, using the data from the World Bank Services
Trade Restriction Indexes (STRI).
Figure 4
Figure 4: Scatter plot of our financial services input intensity against Rajan and Zingales external financial dependence measure for the U.S.
Table 1
Table 1: Descriptive statistics of key variables (for WIOD countries over 1995-2007)
Variables |
Variable Description |
Obs |
Mean |
S.D. |
Min |
Max |
RCA |
RCA based on manufacturing domestic value added (DVA) in gross exports |
6,734 |
1.112 |
1.037 |
0.000 |
12.507 |
SIIf (U.S.) |
ratio of U.S. embodied domestic financial (f) services to U.S. manuf. total value added (totva) |
6,734 |
0.036 |
0.024 |
0.004 |
0.100 |
SIIb (U.S.) |
ratio of U.S. embodied domestic business (b) services to U.S. manufacturing totva |
6,734 |
0.109 |
0.074 |
0.011 |
0.309 |
SIIfb (U.S.) |
ratio of U.S. embodied domestic financial & business (fb) services to U.S. manuf. totva |
6,734 |
0.145 |
0.098 |
0.014 |
0.406 |
SIIf (U.S. avg.) |
average U.S. SIIf over 1995-2007 |
6,734 |
0.035 |
0.023 |
0.005 |
0.080 |
SIIb (U.S. avg.) |
average U.S. SIIb over 1995-2007 |
6,734 |
0.107 |
0.068 |
0.013 |
0.215 |
SIIfb (U.S. avg.) |
average U.S. SIIfb over 1995-2007 |
6,734 |
0.142 |
0.089 |
0.018 |
0.294 |
SIIf |
country's own SIIf, time-varying |
6,704 |
0.026 |
0.031 |
0.000 |
0.530 |
SIIb |
country's own SIIb, time-varying |
6,704 |
0.044 |
0.044 |
0.000 |
0.352 |
SIIfb |
country's own SIIfb, time-varying |
6,704 |
0.070 |
0.062 |
0.000 |
0.559 |
forshf |
share of embodied foreign financial services in total embodied domestic & foreign F services |
6,674 |
0.416 |
0.192 |
0.036 |
0.999 |
forshb |
share of embodied foreign business services in total embodied domestic & foreign B services |
6,674 |
0.496 |
0.207 |
0.076 |
1.000 |
forshfb |
share of embodied foreign F&B services in total embodied domestic & foreign F&B services |
6,674 |
0.450 |
0.188 |
0.066 |
0.999 |
Df (VA/GDP) |
share of financial services totva among a country's GDP |
6,734 |
0.056 |
0.035 |
0.012 |
0.289 |
Db (VA/GDP) |
share of business services totva among a country's GDP |
6,734 |
0.069 |
0.031 |
0.011 |
0.154 |
Dfb (VA/GDP) |
share of financial & business services totva among a country's GDP (= Df + Db) |
6,734 |
0.125 |
0.050 |
0.036 |
0.391 |
Df (VA/worker) |
services value added per worker for financial services sector (in thousand USD) |
6,720 |
4.053 |
0.807 |
1.607 |
5.882 |
Db (VA/worker) |
services value added per worker for business services sector (in thousand USD) |
6,720 |
3.407 |
0.828 |
0.871 |
5.091 |
Dfb (VA/worker) |
services value added per worker for financial & business services sectors (in thousand USD) |
6,720 |
3.649 |
0.776 |
1.244 |
5.352 |
Df1 |
Alternative measure 1 for Df = ratio of bank private credit to GDP |
6,300 |
0.693 |
0.457 |
0.072 |
2.010 |
Df2 |
Alternative measure 2 for Df = (Bank Private Credit + Stock market capitalization)/GDP |
6,202 |
1.216 |
0.767 |
0.086 |
4.072 |
log(GDP/capita) |
log(GDP/capita) |
6,734 |
9.788 |
0.714 |
7.357 |
11.363 |
TFP |
manufacture TFP estimated by the dual approach |
5,686 |
-0.001 |
0.446 |
-4.282 |
4.656 |
log(emp) |
log(manufacture employment) |
6,704 |
4.070 |
2.026 |
-5.717 |
9.749 |
SKratio |
Skill ratio = payment to high skill workers / payment to all workers (in manufacturing sectors) |
6,734 |
0.200 |
0.091 |
0.028 |
0.631 |
K/L |
capital/labor ratio in manufacture |
6,697 |
0.932 |
1.917 |
-0.876 |
62.323 |
rwage |
Relative wage = average wage per worker in a country / world average wage per worker |
6,704 |
0.964 |
4.671 |
0.000 |
75.502 |
GVA Participation |
GVC participation index based on forward linkage |
6,704 |
0.304 |
0.196 |
0.000 |
3.870 |
Table 2
Table 2: The effects of services development on manufacturing export RCA, using U.S. services input intensity averaged over 1995-2007
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
Df
|
-5.102*** (1.733) |
|
|
|
|
|
Df*SIIf |
111.109*** |
|
|
111.829*** |
|
|
|
(35.993) |
|
|
(37.762) |
|
|
Db
|
|
0.857 (2.066) |
|
|
|
|
Db*SIIb |
|
38.719*** |
|
|
39.306*** |
|
|
|
(12.895) |
|
|
(13.937) |
|
Dfb
|
|
|
-3.240** (1.405) |
|
|
|
Dfb*SIIfb |
|
|
27.217*** |
|
|
27.721*** |
|
|
|
(6.695) |
|
|
(7.182) |
log(GDP/capita) |
0.153 |
0.008 |
0.084 |
|
|
|
|
(0.168) |
(0.160) |
(0.168) |
|
|
|
TFP |
0.069*** |
0.075*** |
0.072*** |
0.064** |
0.066** |
0.065** |
|
(0.022) |
(0.021) |
(0.022) |
(0.029) |
(0.028) |
(0.028) |
log(emp) |
0.938*** |
0.935*** |
0.952*** |
0.958*** |
0.952*** |
0.970*** |
|
(0.091) |
(0.092) |
(0.092) |
(0.098) |
(0.099) |
(0.099) |
SKratio |
0.588 |
0.521 |
0.542 |
0.802 |
0.833 |
0.796 |
|
(0.621) |
(0.636) |
(0.638) |
(0.801) |
(0.826) |
(0.822) |
K/L |
0.069*** |
0.066*** |
0.067*** |
0.071*** |
0.068*** |
0.069*** |
|
(0.025) |
(0.025) |
(0.025) |
(0.026) |
(0.026) |
(0.026) |
rwage |
-0.001 |
-0.001 |
-0.001 |
-0.000 |
-0.001 |
0.001 |
|
(0.007) |
(0.007) |
(0.007) |
(0.009) |
(0.008) |
(0.009) |
GVC Participation |
2.463*** |
2.452*** |
2.470*** |
2.577*** |
2.558*** |
2.584*** |
|
(0.448) |
(0.445) |
(0.444) |
(0.500) |
(0.497) |
(0.495) |
Country FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Sector FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Year FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Country*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Sector*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Observations |
5,686 |
5,686 |
5,686 |
5,686 |
5,686 |
5,686 |
R-squared |
0.575 |
0.575 |
0.581 |
0.593 |
0.593 |
0.599 |
Notes: The dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA. Df (Db) refers to the share of financial (business) services value added in GDP. Dfb equals the sum of Df and Db. Sf is the ratio of the U.S. embodied domestic financial services to U.S.’ manufacturing value added, averaged over 1995-2007. All WIOD manufacturing sectors 3-16 are covered (not grouped together). Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by country*sector. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.
Table 3A
Table 3A: Robustness check (1), alternative measure of services development (services value added per worker)
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
Df
|
0.050 (0.076) |
|
|
|
|
|
Df*SIIf |
3.667** |
|
|
3.992** |
|
|
|
(1.690) |
|
|
(1.948) |
|
|
Db
|
|
0.106 (0.068) |
|
|
|
|
Db*SIIb |
|
1.237** |
|
|
1.247** |
|
|
|
(0.574) |
|
|
(0.621) |
|
Dfb
|
|
|
0.132* (0.079) |
|
|
|
Dfb*SIIfb |
|
|
1.125** |
|
|
1.160** |
|
|
|
(0.457) |
|
|
(0.504) |
log(GDP/capita) |
-0.221 |
-0.320** |
-0.428** |
|
|
|
|
(0.168) |
(0.163) |
(0.170) |
|
|
|
TFP |
0.069*** |
0.062*** |
0.063*** |
0.063** |
0.062** |
0.062** |
|
(0.022) |
(0.021) |
(0.021) |
(0.029) |
(0.029) |
(0.029) |
log(emp) |
0.937*** |
0.934*** |
0.939*** |
0.953*** |
0.950*** |
0.955*** |
|
(0.093) |
(0.092) |
(0.093) |
(0.100) |
(0.099) |
(0.100) |
SKratio |
0.586 |
0.512 |
0.514 |
0.788 |
0.708 |
0.689 |
|
(0.629) |
(0.630) |
(0.629) |
(0.823) |
(0.822) |
(0.823) |
K/L |
0.069*** |
0.068*** |
0.069*** |
0.070*** |
0.069*** |
0.070*** |
|
(0.026) |
(0.025) |
(0.025) |
(0.026) |
(0.025) |
(0.026) |
rwage |
-0.002 |
-0.000 |
-0.000 |
-0.001 |
-0.001 |
-0.001 |
|
(0.007) |
(0.007) |
(0.007) |
(0.008) |
(0.008) |
(0.008) |
GVC Participation |
2.428*** |
2.433*** |
2.425*** |
2.530*** |
2.512*** |
2.506*** |
|
(0.445) |
(0.443) |
(0.442) |
(0.495) |
(0.490) |
(0.490) |
Country FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Sector FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Year FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Country*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Sector*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Observations |
5,674 |
5,674 |
5,674 |
5,674 |
5,674 |
5,674 |
R-squared |
0.573 |
0.574 |
0.576 |
0.591 |
0.591 |
0.592 |
Notes: The dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA. Df (Db) refers to the share of financial (business) services value added per worker. Dfb is the services value added per worker for both financial and business services sectors combined. SIIf (SIIb) is the ratio of the U.S. embodied domestic financial (business) services to U.S.’ manufacturing value added, averaged over 1995-2007. SIIfb is the combined measure for both financial and business services. All WIOD manufacturing sectors 3-16 are covered (not grouped together). Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by country*sector. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.
Table 3B
Table 3B: Robustness check (2), alternative measures of financial development (Df1 & Df2)
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
Df1
|
-0.292** (0.120) |
|
|
|
Df1*SIIf |
7.724*** |
|
7.668** |
|
|
(2.841) |
|
(3.065) |
|
Df2
|
|
-0.206*** (0.072) |
|
|
Df2*SIIf |
|
4.962*** |
|
5.121*** |
|
|
(1.662) |
|
(1.863) |
log(GDP/capita) |
0.175 |
0.097 |
|
|
|
(0.173) |
(0.153) |
|
|
TFP |
0.068*** |
0.061*** |
0.068** |
0.059* |
|
(0.022) |
(0.023) |
(0.030) |
(0.030) |
log(emp) |
0.935*** |
0.937*** |
0.954*** |
0.954*** |
|
(0.094) |
(0.093) |
(0.101) |
(0.100) |
SKratio |
0.629 |
0.662 |
0.866 |
0.845 |
|
(0.636) |
(0.635) |
(0.823) |
(0.811) |
K/L |
0.066*** |
0.065*** |
0.068*** |
0.066*** |
|
(0.024) |
(0.023) |
(0.025) |
(0.024) |
rwage |
-0.002 |
-0.002 |
-0.001 |
-0.001 |
|
(0.007) |
(0.007) |
(0.009) |
(0.009) |
GVC Participation |
2.549*** |
2.536*** |
2.668*** |
2.658*** |
|
(0.473) |
(0.466) |
(0.528) |
(0.518) |
Country FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Sector FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Year FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Country*Year FEs |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Sector*Year FEs |
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Observations |
5,758 |
5,678 |
5,758 |
5,678 |
R-squared |
0.509 |
0.511 |
0.530 |
0.532 |
Notes: The dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA. Df1 refers to the ratio of bank credits to private sectors to GDP. Df2 is the ratio of bank credits to private sectors and stock market capitalization to GDP. SIIf is the ratio of the U.S. embodied domestic financial services in U.S.’ manufacturing value added, averaged over 1995-2007. All WIOD manufacturing sectors 3-16 are covered (not grouped together). Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by country*sector. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.
Table 4
Table 4: Robustness check (3), using alternative services input intensity measures for financial & business services combined (fb)
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
|
Use time-varying U.S. services input intensity |
Use countries' own time- varying services intensity |
Use U.K.'s average Services input intensity |
Dfb*SIIfb |
23.941*** |
11.965*** |
30.300** |
|
(6.546) |
(4.147) |
(14.332) |
TFP |
0.064** |
0.067** |
0.067** |
|
(0.028) |
(0.029) |
(0.029) |
log(emp) |
0.964*** |
0.944*** |
0.969*** |
|
(0.099) |
(0.095) |
(0.099) |
SKratio |
0.800 |
0.730 |
0.746 |
|
(0.818) |
(0.682) |
(0.687) |
K/L |
0.070*** |
0.075*** |
0.070*** |
|
(0.026) |
(0.027) |
(0.025) |
rwage |
0.000 |
-0.001 |
0.001 |
|
(0.009) |
(0.008) |
(0.008) |
GVC Participation |
2.575*** |
2.572*** |
2.556*** |
|
(0.496) |
(0.499) |
(0.498) |
Country*Year FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Sector*Year FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Observations |
5,686 |
5,855 |
5,714 |
R-squared |
0.597 |
0.591 |
0.593 |
Notes: The dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA. Dfb refers to the share of financial & business services value added in GDP. In regression (1), SIIfb is the ratio of the U.S. embodied domestic financial & business services to U.S.' manufacturing value added (not averaged over years). In regression (2), SIIfb measures countries' own services input intensity (not averaged over years). In regression (3), SIIfb is the ratio of the U.K. embodied domestic financial & business services to U.K.' manufacturing value added, averaged over 1995-2007. All WIOD manufacturing sectors 3-16 are covered (not grouped together). U.S. observations are dropped from regression (1) and the U.K. observations are dropped from regression (3). Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by country*sector. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.
Table 5A
Table 5A: Effects of embodied foreign services on manufacturing export RCA, for MORE services intensive manufacturing sectors
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
Df
|
2.445 (3.766) |
|
|
|
|
|
forshf |
0.246 |
|
|
0.989 |
|
|
|
(0.499) |
|
|
(1.295) |
|
|
Df*forshf |
-8.962** |
|
|
-32.749 |
|
|
|
(4.376) |
|
|
(22.928) |
|
|
Db
|
|
16.921*** (5.080) |
|
|
|
|
forshb |
|
1.070 |
|
|
2.801** |
|
|
|
(0.660) |
|
|
(1.113) |
|
Db*forshb |
|
-20.873*** |
|
|
-45.683*** |
|
|
|
(8.025) |
|
|
(15.308) |
|
Dfb
|
|
|
6.959** (3.374) |
|
|
|
forshfb |
|
|
0.991 |
|
|
3.265** |
|
|
|
(0.820) |
|
|
(1.548) |
Dfb*forshfb |
|
|
-12.261*** |
|
|
-35.116*** |
|
|
|
(4.499) |
|
|
(12.198) |
log(GDP/capita) |
-0.183 |
-0.182 |
-0.168 |
|
|
|
|
(0.204) |
(0.220) |
(0.217) |
|
|
|
TFP |
0.071** |
0.078** |
0.073** |
0.051 |
0.057 |
0.050 |
|
(0.034) |
(0.032) |
(0.034) |
(0.050) |
(0.050) |
(0.051) |
log(emp) |
0.880*** |
0.888*** |
0.889*** |
0.894*** |
0.907*** |
0.918*** |
|
(0.080) |
(0.081) |
(0.080) |
(0.089) |
(0.089) |
(0.090) |
SKratio |
0.320 |
0.179 |
0.256 |
0.317 |
0.283 |
0.315 |
|
(0.713) |
(0.689) |
(0.716) |
(0.935) |
(0.910) |
(0.924) |
K/L |
0.145** |
0.150** |
0.151** |
0.178** |
0.189** |
0.182** |
|
(0.072) |
(0.072) |
(0.072) |
(0.090) |
(0.088) |
(0.088) |
rwage |
-0.018* |
-0.016* |
-0.017* |
-0.021 |
-0.017 |
-0.018 |
|
(0.010) |
(0.010) |
(0.010) |
(0.014) |
(0.013) |
(0.013) |
GVC Participation |
0.913*** |
0.940*** |
0.928*** |
1.033*** |
1.004*** |
1.024*** |
|
(0.289) |
(0.293) |
(0.290) |
(0.335) |
(0.338) |
(0.337) |
Country FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Sector FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Year FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Country*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Sector*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Observations |
2,901 |
2,901 |
2,901 |
2,901 |
2,901 |
2,901 |
R-squared |
0.596 |
0.598 |
0.598 |
0.622 |
0.626 |
0.626 |
Notes: Dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA. We keep only the last seven sectors with high financial and business service input intensity, as listed in Appendix 4. Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by country*sector. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.
Table 5B
Table 5B: Effects of embodied foreign services on manufacturing export RCA, for LESS services intensive manufacturing sectors
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
(5) |
(6) |
Df
|
0.359 (4.761) |
|
|
|
|
|
forshf |
-0.233 |
|
|
-1.231 |
|
|
|
(0.560) |
|
|
(1.549) |
|
|
Df*forshf |
-2.248 |
|
|
15.603 |
|
|
|
(9.165) |
|
|
(25.722) |
|
|
Db
|
|
9.509** (4.404) |
|
|
|
|
forshb |
|
-0.525 |
|
|
-0.390 |
|
|
|
(0.589) |
|
|
(0.984) |
|
Db*forshb |
|
-13.422* |
|
|
-17.385 |
|
|
|
(7.452) |
|
|
(14.001) |
|
Dfb
|
|
|
4.016 (3.735) |
|
|
|
forshfb |
|
|
-0.120 |
|
|
0.334 |
|
|
|
(0.786) |
|
|
(1.844) |
Dfb*forshfb |
|
|
-6.610 |
|
|
-10.217 |
|
|
|
(5.555) |
|
|
(15.852) |
log(GDP/capita) |
0.371 |
0.284 |
0.325 |
|
|
|
|
(0.273) |
(0.250) |
(0.260) |
|
|
|
TFP |
0.058** |
0.056** |
0.057** |
0.067* |
0.057 |
0.064* |
|
(0.028) |
(0.028) |
(0.028) |
(0.038) |
(0.035) |
(0.036) |
log(emp) |
0.959*** |
0.931*** |
0.940*** |
0.966*** |
0.944*** |
0.963*** |
|
(0.155) |
(0.162) |
(0.158) |
(0.169) |
(0.183) |
(0.177) |
SKratio |
0.196 |
0.226 |
0.187 |
0.147 |
0.152 |
0.153 |
|
(0.653) |
(0.666) |
(0.667) |
(0.831) |
(0.871) |
(0.862) |
K/L |
0.068*** |
0.073*** |
0.071*** |
0.070*** |
0.076*** |
0.073*** |
|
(0.023) |
(0.025) |
(0.024) |
(0.022) |
(0.025) |
(0.024) |
rwage |
0.018** |
0.019** |
0.018** |
0.022* |
0.022* |
0.021* |
|
(0.009) |
(0.009) |
(0.009) |
(0.012) |
(0.012) |
(0.012) |
GVC Participation |
3.972*** |
4.098*** |
4.056*** |
4.254*** |
4.373*** |
4.306*** |
|
(0.706) |
(0.696) |
(0.708) |
(0.847) |
(0.838) |
(0.844) |
Country FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Sector FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Year FEs |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Country*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Sector*Year FEs |
|
|
|
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Observations |
2,931 |
2,931 |
2,931 |
2,931 |
2,931 |
2,931 |
R-squared |
0.637 |
0.644 |
0.640 |
0.665 |
0.669 |
0.666 |
Notes: Dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA. We keep only the first seven sectors with high financial and business service input intensity, as listed in Appendix 4. Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by country*sector. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.
Appendix 1A
Appendix 1A: Total direct & indirect value added export (VAX) of financial service, 1995-2007
Country |
X (gross export) |
VAX |
Ratio1 = VAX/X |
dVAX |
indVAX |
Ratio2 = indVAX/dVAX |
AUS |
210 |
579 |
2.76 |
133 |
447 |
3.74 |
AUT |
564 |
686 |
1.22 |
334 |
352 |
1.00 |
BEL |
620 |
896 |
1.45 |
327 |
569 |
1.65 |
BGR |
20 |
47 |
2.37 |
13 |
34 |
2.69 |
BRA |
72 |
457 |
6.30 |
47 |
410 |
8.68 |
CAN |
487 |
984 |
2.02 |
275 |
709 |
2.59 |
CHN |
53 |
1774 |
33.62 |
34 |
1740 |
42.94 |
CYP |
4 |
12 |
2.72 |
3 |
8 |
2.79 |
CZE |
45 |
104 |
2.32 |
20 |
84 |
4.77 |
DEU |
1151 |
2644 |
2.30 |
529 |
2115 |
3.56 |
DNK |
122 |
282 |
2.30 |
76 |
206 |
2.83 |
ESP |
438 |
847 |
1.93 |
284 |
563 |
1.82 |
EST |
8 |
15 |
1.91 |
5 |
10 |
1.87 |
FIN |
33 |
122 |
3.76 |
21 |
101 |
3.56 |
FRA |
790 |
1925 |
2.44 |
405 |
1520 |
3.96 |
GBR |
5050 |
4339 |
0.86 |
2591 |
1748 |
0.54 |
GRC |
39 |
87 |
2.27 |
28 |
59 |
2.21 |
HUN |
52 |
118 |
2.28 |
29 |
89 |
3.74 |
IDN |
139 |
271 |
1.95 |
103 |
168 |
1.95 |
IND |
101 |
683 |
6.77 |
78 |
605 |
7.46 |
IRL |
1597 |
1171 |
0.73 |
831 |
341 |
0.38 |
ITA |
552 |
1604 |
2.90 |
331 |
1273 |
3.57 |
JPN |
789 |
3603 |
4.57 |
522 |
3081 |
6.25 |
KOR |
199 |
976 |
4.91 |
119 |
857 |
6.58 |
LTU |
2 |
12 |
6.45 |
1 |
11 |
9.35 |
LUX |
2910 |
849 |
0.29 |
640 |
209 |
0.32 |
LVA |
8 |
16 |
1.96 |
5 |
10 |
2.09 |
MEX |
181 |
512 |
2.83 |
119 |
393 |
3.70 |
MLT |
7 |
11 |
1.49 |
4 |
7 |
1.97 |
NLD |
820 |
1244 |
1.52 |
442 |
803 |
1.58 |
POL |
114 |
219 |
1.92 |
70 |
148 |
2.55 |
PRT |
93 |
235 |
2.52 |
65 |
170 |
2.76 |
ROM |
24 |
67 |
2.82 |
17 |
50 |
3.07 |
RUS |
5 |
152 |
29.25 |
4 |
149 |
49.65 |
SVK |
20 |
37 |
1.89 |
12 |
25 |
2.01 |
SVN |
9 |
38 |
4.35 |
6 |
33 |
4.66 |
SWE |
372 |
532 |
1.43 |
247 |
285 |
1.08 |
TUR |
7 |
251 |
34.48 |
5 |
247 |
45.46 |
TWN |
95 |
1197 |
12.55 |
75 |
1122 |
13.78 |
USA |
10116 |
11897 |
1.18 |
5624 |
6273 |
1.07 |
ROW |
2382 |
4798 |
2.01 |
1598 |
3199 |
1.93 |
TOT |
30300 |
46293 |
1.53 |
16070 |
30223 |
1.88 |
Notes: The export values in this table are for financial services sector (WIOD sector 28) in 100 million U.S. dollars at 2005 constant price, using the U.S. GDP deflator from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (website address: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2). X is total gross exports. VAX is total value added exports. dVAX is direct value added exports. indVAX is indirect value added exports through other sectors.
Appendix 1B
Appendix 1B: Total direct & indirect value added export (VAX) of business service, 1995-2007
Country |
X (gross export) |
VAX |
Ratio1 = VAX/X |
dVAX |
indVAX |
Ratio2 = indVAX/dVAX |
AUS |
512 |
1128 |
2.20 |
250 |
879 |
3.60 |
AUT |
1012 |
1184 |
1.17 |
579 |
604 |
1.11 |
BEL |
1964 |
2657 |
1.35 |
964 |
1693 |
1.76 |
BGR |
11 |
26 |
2.41 |
8 |
18 |
2.23 |
BRA |
303 |
665 |
2.19 |
193 |
472 |
2.38 |
CAN |
1322 |
2380 |
1.80 |
812 |
1568 |
1.93 |
CHN |
1765 |
1921 |
1.09 |
757 |
1164 |
1.33 |
CYP |
12 |
21 |
1.78 |
8 |
13 |
1.66 |
CZE |
274 |
352 |
1.28 |
121 |
231 |
1.97 |
DEU |
3821 |
12761 |
3.34 |
2596 |
10166 |
3.74 |
DNK |
429 |
680 |
1.59 |
236 |
444 |
1.80 |
ESP |
1576 |
1957 |
1.24 |
924 |
1033 |
1.08 |
EST |
27 |
38 |
1.41 |
15 |
24 |
1.62 |
FIN |
474 |
654 |
1.38 |
278 |
376 |
1.25 |
FRA |
3138 |
8361 |
2.66 |
1801 |
6560 |
3.69 |
GBR |
6748 |
9602 |
1.42 |
4635 |
4966 |
1.06 |
GRC |
99 |
130 |
1.31 |
53 |
77 |
1.39 |
HUN |
287 |
388 |
1.35 |
163 |
225 |
1.38 |
IDN |
29 |
48 |
1.63 |
17 |
32 |
1.31 |
IND |
1588 |
1279 |
0.81 |
1084 |
195 |
0.19 |
IRL |
1563 |
1321 |
0.85 |
862 |
458 |
0.51 |
ITA |
1713 |
4178 |
2.44 |
965 |
3212 |
3.29 |
JPN |
1011 |
4660 |
4.61 |
608 |
4052 |
7.06 |
KOR |
591 |
1624 |
2.75 |
374 |
1249 |
3.27 |
LTU |
16 |
25 |
1.55 |
10 |
15 |
1.87 |
LUX |
231 |
240 |
1.04 |
121 |
118 |
0.90 |
LVA |
14 |
25 |
1.85 |
7 |
18 |
2.67 |
MEX |
88 |
793 |
9.06 |
63 |
730 |
12.17 |
MLT |
24 |
24 |
1.02 |
15 |
9 |
0.67 |
NLD |
3266 |
3954 |
1.21 |
1896 |
2058 |
1.06 |
POL |
258 |
511 |
1.98 |
148 |
363 |
2.28 |
PRT |
175 |
299 |
1.70 |
92 |
206 |
2.16 |
ROM |
106 |
119 |
1.12 |
52 |
66 |
1.23 |
RUS |
72 |
524 |
7.27 |
45 |
480 |
12.01 |
SVK |
85 |
121 |
1.42 |
43 |
78 |
1.86 |
SVN |
50 |
99 |
2.00 |
27 |
72 |
2.68 |
SWE |
1444 |
1903 |
1.32 |
811 |
1092 |
1.27 |
TUR |
1.34 |
146 |
109.57 |
1 |
146 |
148.14 |
TWN |
423 |
516 |
1.22 |
216 |
300 |
1.61 |
USA |
9517 |
20777 |
2.18 |
6230 |
14547 |
2.20 |
ROW |
9776 |
8234 |
0.84 |
5458 |
2776 |
0.51 |
TOTAL |
55815 |
96323 |
1.73 |
33535 |
62788 |
1.87 |
Notes: The export values in this table are for business service sector (WIOD sector 30) in 100 million U.S. dollars at 2005 constant price, using the U.S. GDP deflator from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (website address: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2). X is total gross exports. VAX is total value added exports. dVAX is direct value added exports. indVAX is indirect value added exports through other sectors.
Appendix 2
Appendix 2: Countries & Codes in WIOD
Code |
Country |
Code |
Country |
Code |
Country |
Code |
Country |
AUS |
Australia |
DNK |
Denmark |
IRL |
Ireland |
POL |
Poland |
AUT |
Austria |
ESP |
Spain |
ITA |
Italy |
PRT |
Portugal |
BEL |
Belgium |
EST |
Estonia |
JPN |
Japan |
ROM |
Romania |
BGR |
Bulgaria |
FIN |
Finland |
KOR |
Korea, Rep. |
RUS |
Russian Federation |
BRA |
Brazil |
FRA |
France |
LTU |
Lithuania |
SVK |
Slovak Republic |
CAN |
Canada |
GBR |
United Kingdom |
LUX |
Luxembourg |
SVN |
Slovenia |
CHN |
China |
GRC |
Greece |
LVA |
Latvia |
SWE |
Sweden |
CYP |
Cyprus |
HUN |
Hungary |
MEX |
Mexico |
TUR |
Turkey |
CZE |
Czech Rep. |
IDN |
Indonesia |
MLT |
Malta |
TWN |
Taiwan, China |
DEU |
Germany |
IND |
India |
NLD |
Netherlands |
USA |
United States |
Appendix 3A
Appendix 3A: Manufacture (sec 3-16) and service sectors (sec 28 & 30) covered by this paper
sec |
descriptions |
c3 |
Food, Beverages, and Tobacco |
c4 |
Textiles and Textile Products |
c5 |
Leather, Leather, and Footwear |
c6 |
Wood and Products of Wood and Cork |
c7 |
Pulp, Paper, Paper, Printing and Publishing |
c8 |
Coke, Refined Petroleum and Nuclear Fuel |
c9 |
Chemicals and Chemical Products |
c10 |
Rubber and Plastics |
c11 |
Other Non-Metallic Mineral |
c12 |
Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal |
c13 |
Machinery, Nec |
c14 |
Electrical and Optical Equipment |
c15 |
Transport Equipment |
c16 |
Manufacturing, Nec; Recycling |
c28 |
Financial Intermediation (see Appendix 3B for its coverage) |
C30 |
Renting of M&Eq and Other Business Activities (see Appendix 3C for its coverage) |
Appendix 3B
Appendix 3B: Detailed ISIC sectors inside financial services (WIOD sector 28)
6511 |
Central banking |
6519 |
Other monetary intermediation |
6591 |
Financial leasing |
6592 |
Other credit granting |
6599 |
Other financial intermediation n.e.c. |
6601 |
Life insurance |
6602 |
Pension funding |
6603 |
Non life insurance |
6711 |
Administration of financial markets |
6712 |
Security dealing activities |
6719 |
Activities auxiliary to financial intermediation n.e.c. |
6720 |
Activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding |
Appendix 3C
Appendix 3C: Detailed ISIC sectors inside business services (WIOD sector 30)
7111 |
Renting of land transport equipment |
7112 |
Renting of water transport equipment |
7113 |
Renting of air transport equipment |
7121 |
Renting of agricultural machinery and equipment |
7122 |
Renting of construction and civil engineering machinery and equipment |
7123 |
Renting of office machinery and equipment (including computers) |
7129 |
Renting of other machinery and equipment n.e.c. |
7130 |
Renting of personal and household goods n.e.c. |
7210 |
Hardware consultancy |
7220 |
Software consultancy and supply |
7230 |
Data processing |
7240 |
Data base activities |
7250 |
Maintenance and repair of office, accounting and computing machinery |
7290 |
Other computer related activities |
7310 |
Research and experimental development on natural sciences and engineering (NSE) |
7320 |
Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities (SSH) |
7411 |
Legal activities |
7412 |
Accounting, book-keeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy |
7413 |
Market research and public opinion polling |
7414 |
Business and management consultancy activities |
7421 |
Architectural and engineering activities and related technical consultancy |
7422 |
Technical testing and analysis |
7430 |
Advertising |
7491 |
Labour recruitment and provision of personnel |
7492 |
Investigation and security activities |
7493 |
Building-cleaning activities |
7494 |
Photographic activities |
7495 |
Packaging activities |
7499 |
Other business activities n.e.c. |
Appendix 4
Appendix 4: Manufacturing sector classification based on service input intensity
WIOD sector |
Sector Description |
Average ratio of embodied domestic financial & business services to total manufacturing value added for the U.S. over 1995-2007 |
High SII Sectors |
5 |
Leather, Leather, and Footwear |
.315 |
0 |
3 |
Food, Beverages, and Tobacco |
.291 |
0 |
15 |
Transport Equipment |
.236 |
0 |
13 |
Machinery, Nec |
.196 |
0 |
16 |
Manufacturing, Nec; Recycling |
.189 |
0 |
4 |
Textiles and Textile Products |
.171 |
0 |
14 |
Electrical and Optical Equipment |
.168 |
0 |
9 |
Chemicals and Chemical Products |
.128 |
1 |
7 |
Pulp, Paper, Paper, Printing, and Publishing |
.122 |
1 |
8 |
Coke, Refined Petroleum, and Nuclear Fuel |
.091 |
1 |
6 |
Wood and Products of Wood and Cork |
.045 |
1 |
10 |
Rubber and Plastics |
.043 |
1 |
11 |
Other Non-Metallic Mineral |
.020 |
1 |
12 |
Basic Metals and Fabricated Metal |
.019 |
1 |