Cross-border commuting and consuming: An empirical investigation

This paper analyses empirically how cross-border consumption varies across product and services categories and across household characteristics. It focuses on the part of crossbordersales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings; it analyses the crossborder consumption behaviour of cross-border commuter households residing in Belgium, France and Germany and working in Luxembourg. In total, it is estimated that these households spend EUR925 million per annum in Luxembourg, reflecting about 17     «

This paper analyses empirically how cross-border consumption varies across product and services categories and across household characteristics. It focuses on the part of crossbordersales that arise due to work-related cross-border crossings; it analyses the crossborder consumption behaviour of cross-border commuter households residing in Belgium, France and Germany and working in Luxembourg. In total, it is estimated that these households spend EUR925 million per annum in Luxembourg, reflectin...     »