Intra-firm Trade and Product Contractibility (Long Version) / Andrew B. Bernard, J. Bradford Jensen, Stephen J. Redding, Peter K. Schott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernard, Andrew B.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Jensen, J. Bradford.

Redding, Stephen J.

Schott, Peter K.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w15881.

NBER working paper series no. w15881

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Intra-firm Trade and Product Contractibility

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2010.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2010.