Intrafirm trade and vertical fragmentation in U.S. multinational corporations

Intrafirm Trade and Vertical Fragmentation in U.S. Multinational Corporations

Using firm-level data, we document two new facts regarding intrafirm trade and the activities of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational corporations. First, intrafirm trade is concentrated among a small number of large affiliates within large multinational corporations; the median affiliate ships nothing to the rest of the corporation. Second, we find that the input-output coefficient lin...

Multinational corporations.

Language, ethnicity and intrafirm trade

☆ The authors benefitted from the helpful suggestions b Behfar, AlanBeckenstein, JohnMclaren, Ariell Reshef, Jame Pravin Krishna (who saw an earlier version of the paper) Peter Debaere received research funds from the Darden F ⁎ Corresponding author at: Darden School of Business States. Tel.: +1 434 243 2339; fax: +1 434 243 7678. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. (H. Lee), jle...

Intrafirm Trade and Product Contractibility

This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in US imports using detailed country-product data. We create a new measure of product contractibility based on the degree of intermediation in international trade for the product. We find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristics in determining intra-firm trade shares. Intra-firm trade is high for products...

Multinational Corporations in Transnational Accountability