TY  - JOUR
AU  - Antràs,Pol
AU  - Chor,Davin
AU  - Fally,Thibault
AU  - Hillberry,Russell
TI  - Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17819
PY  - 2012
Y2  - February 2012
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17819
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17819.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Pol Antràs
Department of Economics
Harvard University
1805 Cambridge Street
Littauer Center 207
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1236
Fax: 617/495-8570
E-Mail: pantras@fas.harvard.edu

Davin Chor
Singapore Management University
School of Economics
90 Stamford Rd
Singapore 178903
Singapore
Tel: 65-6828-0876
E-Mail: davinchor@gmail.com

Thibault Fally
Department of Economics
University of Colorado at Boulder
256 UCB
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0256
USA
Tel: 303-492-6652
E-Mail: Thibault.Fally@colorado.edu

Russell Hillberry
Department of Economics
University of Melbourne
3010, VIC, Australia
Phone: +61 3 8344 5354
E-Mail: rhhi@unimelb.edu.au
AB  - We propose two distinct approaches to the measurement of industry upstreamness (or average distance from final use) and show that they yield an equivalent measure. Furthermore, we provide two additional interpretations of this measure, one of them related to the concept of forward linkages in Input-Output analysis. On the empirical side, we construct this measure for 426 industries using the 2002 US Input-Output Tables. We also verify the stability of upstreamness across countries in the OECD STAN database, albeit with a more aggregated industry classification. Finally, we present an application that explores the determinants of the average upstreamness of exports at the country level using trade flows for 2002.
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