Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports

Robert Koopman, Zhi Wang () and Shang-Jin Wei

American Economic Review, 2014, vol. 104, issue 2, 459-94

Abstract: This paper proposes an accounting framework that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double-counted terms. Our parsimonious framework bridges a gap between official trade statistics (in gross value terms) and national accounts (in value-added terms), and integrates all previous measures of vertical specialization and value-added trade in the literature into a unified framework. To illustrate the potential of such a method, we present a number of applications including re-computing revealed comparative advantages and the magnifying impact of multi-stage production on trade costs.

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Date: 2014
Note: DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.2.459
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