Title: Importers, Exporters and Multi-nationals

Abstract: A newly developed dataset permits examination of new dimensions of firm activity, including how many products firms trade, how many countries firms trade with, the characteristics of those countries, the concentration of trade across firms, whether firms transact at arm’s length or with related parties, and whether firms import as well as export. Firms that trade goods play an important role in the United States, employing more than a third of the US workforce. The most globally engaged US firms...

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Publication ID: 142

Category Description: International Trade and related Economic Statistics

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: Peterson Institute for International Economics

Year: 2005

Month: September

Sub Title: A Portrait of Firms in the U.S. that Trade Goods

Author 1: Andrew Bernard

Author 2: Bradford Jensen

Author 3:Peter Schott

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Link: http://www.iie.com/publications/wp/wp05-10.pdf

Tags: arm length trade , business activity indicators , employment , international trade dataset , longitudinal data on US enterprises , trade with related parties ,

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