Intrafirm Trade and Product Contractibility
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Intrafirm Trade and Product Contractibility
This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in US 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...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Economic Review
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-8282
DOI: 10.1257/aer.100.2.444