Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports: Comment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Los, Bart; Timmer, Marcel P.; de Vries, Gaaitzen J.
• 署名单位: University of Groningen
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0002-8282
• DOI: 10.1257/aer.20140883
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 1958-1966
• 关键词: trade

摘要

In a recent contribution to the AER, Koopman, Wang, and Wei (2014) proposed a decomposition of a country's gross exports into value-added components and double-counted terms. It is motivated by complex manipulation of basic accounting identities. In this comment we provide an alternative framework based on hypothetical extraction. This parsimonious approach provides a clear definition of domestic value added in exports and has a natural extension into decompositions of bilateral export flows.