Intra-firm trade and product contractibility (long version)
By: Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, Peter K. Schott
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15881; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15881.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in U.S.  imports using detailed country-product data.  We create a new measure of product contractibility based on the degree of intermediation in international trade for the product.  We find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristics in determining intra-firm trade shares.  Intra-firm trade is high for products with low levels of contractability sourced from countries with weak governance, for skill-intensive products from skill-scarce countries, and for capital-intensive products from capital-abundant countries"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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