Measuring the share of imports in final consumption

Emmanuel Dhyne, Ken Kikkawa, Magne Mogstad and Felix Tintelnot ()
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Felix Tintelnot: University of Chicago, 1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

No 430, Working Paper Research from National Bank of Belgium

Abstract: We use Belgian data on domestic firm-to-firm transactions and ask how the measurement of the share of imports in final consumption is affected when one uses data recorded at higher levels of aggregation. We find that aggregating detailed firm-to-firm transaction data to the firm level and imposing homogeneity assumptions in the composition of firms’ input and output do not substantially affect the measurement of the share of imports in final consumption. However, using the national IO tables alone may understate the share of imports in final consumption and, thereby, the gains from trade.

Keywords: : Import content; firm-to-firm linkages; sectoral linkages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2023-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec and nep-int
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