Measuring the upstreamness of production and trade flows

• Main Authors: Antras, Pol, CHOR, Davin, Fally, Thibault, Hillbery, Russell
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2012
• Subjects: Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation; Networks; Economics; Growth and Development
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/1430; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/2429/viewcontent/MeasuringUpstreamnessProdTradeFlows_2012.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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. We const...