World Trade Flows Characterization: Unit Values, Trade Types and Price Ranges

Charlotte Emlinger and Sophie Piton

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Abstract: We provide a systematic decomposition of world trade using a new database built on an harmonized version of Trade Unit Values, CEPII's database providing a world trade matrix of unit values for more than 230 countries and 5 100 products over the period 2000-2012. The decomposition allows to associate each flow with a trade type (one-way trade, intra-industry trade in similar products or in differentiated products) and a price range (low, middle or high range). We show that world trade is still mainly inter-industry and concerns more and more middle-market products.

Keywords: Unit Values; Trade Prices; Trade Types; Price Ranges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12
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