Multi-product exporters, carry-along trade and the margins of trade
During this seminar Hylke Vandenbussche (Catholic University of Leuven) will present this paper: "Multi-product exporters, carry-along trade and the margins of trade"
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Time: 2011, Tuesday March 1, 13.00-14.00 hours
Location: CPB-office, Van Stolkweg 14, The Hague
Presentation: Hylke Vandenbussche (Catholic University of Leuven)
Discussant: Arjan Lejour (CPB)
Language: English
Registration: Please register by sending an email to seminars@cpb.nl.
Abstract subject: New empirical and theoretical work has highlighted the importance of multi-product firms in international trade flows. We examine multi-product exporters in the small open economy of Belgium, considering their importance and the relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin adjustments of trade. Linking production and export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters. The large majority of Belgian manufacturing firms export products that they do not produce. More than three quarters of the exported products and more than one quarter of export value from Belgian manufacturers are in goods that are not produced by the firm, so-called Carry-Along Trade (CAT). CAT exports are concentrated in the largest and most productive firms and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export value of goods that the firm produces.
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