Website premia for extensive margins of international firm activities: Evidence for SMEs from 34 countries
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2022. (University of Lueneburg Working Paper Series in Economics; Nr. 410).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Website premia for extensive margins of international firm activities
T2 - Evidence for SMEs from 34 countries
AU - Wagner, Joachim
PY - 2022/3/23
Y1 - 2022/3/23
N2 - This paper uses firm level data from the Flash Eurobarometer 421 survey conducted in June 2015 in 34 European countries to investigate the link between having a website and international firm activities in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We find that firms which are present in the web do more often export, import, engage in research and development cooperation with international partners, work as subcontractors for firms from other countries, use firms in other countries as subcontractors, and perform foreign direct investments – both inside and outside the European Union. The estimated website premia are statistically highly significant after controlling for firm size, country, and sector of economic activity. Furthermore, the size of these premia can be considered to be large. Internationally active firms tend to have a website.
AB - This paper uses firm level data from the Flash Eurobarometer 421 survey conducted in June 2015 in 34 European countries to investigate the link between having a website and international firm activities in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). We find that firms which are present in the web do more often export, import, engage in research and development cooperation with international partners, work as subcontractors for firms from other countries, use firms in other countries as subcontractors, and perform foreign direct investments – both inside and outside the European Union. The estimated website premia are statistically highly significant after controlling for firm size, country, and sector of economic activity. Furthermore, the size of these premia can be considered to be large. Internationally active firms tend to have a website.
KW - Economics
KW - Website premia
KW - international firm activites
KW - Flash Eurobarometer 421
M3 - Working papers
T3 - University of Lueneburg Working Paper Series in Economics
BT - Website premia for extensive margins of international firm activities
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -