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Give Credit Where Credit is Due: Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains


Robert Koopman


U.S. International Trade Commission

William M. Powers


affiliation not provided to SSRN

Zhi Wang


U.S. International Trade Commission

Shang-Jin Wei


Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); International Monetary Fund (IMF); Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management
September 2010

NBER Working Paper No. w16426

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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.

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Date posted: October 4, 2010  

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Koopman, Robert, Powers, William M., Wang, Zhi and Wei, Shang-Jin, Give Credit Where Credit is Due: Tracing Value Added in Global Production Chains (September 2010). NBER Working Paper No. w16426. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1685731

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Robert Koopman (Contact Author)
U.S. International Trade Commission ( email )
500 E Street, SW
Washington, DC 20436
United States
William M. Powers
affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )
Zhi Wang
U.S. International Trade Commission ( email )
500 E Street, SW
Washington, DC 20436
United States
Shang-Jin Wei
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics ( email )
3022 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
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International Monetary Fund (IMF)
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Tsinghua University - School of Economics & Management
Beijing, 100084
China
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