Value added content of trade: A comprehensive approach

This letter provides an approach to decompose the value added content of trade into foreign and domestic components when intermediates are traded. The measure adds to the existing literature by considering both exports and imports simultaneously. In this way this approach generalizes the commonly applied vertical specialization measures based on exports only which are encompassed.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Foster-McGregor, Neil ; Stehrer, Robert
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 120.2013, 2, p. 354-357
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Value added trade \| Vertical specialization \| Factor content of trade

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	F1 - Trade ; F15 - Economic Integration ; F19 - Trade. Other
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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