Measuring Product-Market Integration / Michael M. Knetter, Matthew J. Slaughter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knetter, Michael M.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Slaughter, Matthew J.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6969.

NBER working paper series no. w6969

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1999.

Summary:

Globalization -- the integration of national economies -- has become one of the most widely used buzzwords of the late 20th century. Yet there are remarkably few statistical measures of product-market integration across time, countries, and goods. In this paper we present some new measures of product-market integration based on price and quantity data. We find evidence of greater integration, but we also find that this process has not been uniform over time, countries, or goods.

Notes:

Print version record

February 1999.