Title: Give Credit Where the Credit is Due

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...

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Publication ID: 67

Category Description: Indicators for International Trade and Economic Globalization

Publication Type: Paper

Inistitute: USITC

Year: 2011

Month: August

Sub Title: Tracing value added in global production chains

Author 1: Robert Koopman

Author 2: William Powers

Author 3:Shang-Jin Wei

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Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w16426

Tags: comparative advantage index , database on value-added trade , global production process , vertical specialization ,

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