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Phd, Assistant Professor 

LMU Munich

Chair of International Economics, 

LMU Munich, 

Room 223, Ludwigstr. 28, Front Building

80539 Munich, Germany 

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Working Papers

The Spillover Effect of Services Offshoring on Local Labour Markets  

Reject and Resubmit Journal of International Economics

This study provides new empirical evidence on the direct and indirect impact of services offshoring on local labour market employment and wages. I construct a unique firm-level dataset locating offshoring flows at the postcode level in the UK between 2000-2015. Exploiting quasi-random variation in firms' services offshoring across local labour markets, I find positive employment and wages elasticities to services offshoring within local labour markets. Spillovers from offshoring raise demand for labour for firms within a local labour market, including those not involved directly in services offshoring. Finally, I show that services offshoring increases employment and wage dispersion within local labour markets.

Services account for one-third of global trade, yet little is known about the impact of trade restrictions on services trade. To make progress in this area, it is crucial to understand through which Modes services are traded (cross-border, movement of people, foreign investment or consumption abroad) and how firms substitute among these Modes. We provide novel micro-level evidence on firms' mode choices, combining detailed data on UK firms' trade and affiliates' sales. We also estimate the substitution between trade Modes using Brexit as an exogenous shock, finding that UK firms increasingly relied on local affiliate sales to serve the EU market after 2016. This shift protected firm-level services exports from expected higher trade barriers after Brexit, but at the cost of lower domestic employment.

Taxing Services in the Global Economy (joint with Andreas Baur, Lisandra Flach and Yoto Yotov)

The literature commonly confines the impact of corporate taxes on cross-border trade to a shift of tax revenues to tax havens. Using corporate tax changes, event studies, and a structural gravity framework that allows for the estimation of country-specific policies, we provide novel insights into the trade elasticity. We first provide evidence that trade in goods and services react in different ways to changes in corporate taxation, reflecting the intangible nature of services. Leveraging a comprehensive panel dataset and tax reforms, we present evidence of a positive elasticity to tax changes that depends on the initial tax differential between countries. We show that the effect of tax reforms on trade in services is not confined to tax havens and highly heterogeneous across types of services. Our results emphasize the relevance of corporate tax reforms beyond countries classified as tax havens and the necessity of addressing tax gaps across countries.

Work in Progress

Corporate Taxation and Cross-Border Trade in the Global Economy (joint with Lisandra Flach and Yoto Yotov)

Boundling Goods and Services (joint with Andreas Moxnes and Björn Thor Arnson)

Productivity distribution and Firms' rank, the role of services

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