Give Credit Where Credit Is Due: Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains
Abstract
This paper provides both a conceptual framework for decomposing a country’s gross exports into value-added components by source and a new bilateral database on value-added trade. Our parsimonious framework integrates all previous measures of vertical specialization and value-added trade in the literature. To illustrate the potential of the decomposition, we present a number of applications including re-computing revealed comparative advantages and constructing an index to describe whether a country-sector is likely in the upstream or downstream of global production chains.Download Info
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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 16426.Length:
Date of creation: Sep 2010
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- Robert Koopman & William Powers & Zhi Wang & Shang-Jin Wei, 2011. "Give Credit where Credit is Due: Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains," Working Papers 312011, Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.
- F1 - International Economics - - Trade
- F2 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business
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