This paper introduces the Granular Trade and Production Activities (GRANTPA) database, which covers international trade flows for 3,124 products and 247 countries over the period 1995-2019 as well as domestic trade flows and production data for the same number of products and years for a subset...

A large number of recent papers employ value-added trade data alongside traditional gross measures of trade to estimate the impact of various trade costs on bilateral trade. Value-added gravity equations are typically justified by referencing the theoretical and empirical merits of traditional...