Flaaen, Aaron; Kamal, Fariha; Lee, Eunhee; Yi, Kei-mu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
Global value chains (GVC) are a pervasive feature of modern production, but they are hard to measure. Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we develop novel measures of the linkages between U.S. manufacturing establishments' imports and exports. We document three new GVC...