Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2011
Publication Title
American Economic Review
Department
Department of Economics
Abstract
A common view is that cross-border vertical linkages played a key role in the 2008-2009 collapse of global trade. This paper presents two accounting results from a global input-output framework that shed light on this channel. We feed in observed changes in final demand and find that trade in final goods fell by twice as much as trade in intermediate goods. Nevertheless, intermediate goods account for more than two-fifths of the trade collapse. We also find that vertical specialization trade fell 13 percent, while value-added trade fell by 10 percent, because declines in demand were largest in highly vertically-specialized sectors.
DOI
10.1257/aer.101.3.308
Original Citation
Bems, Rudolfs, Robert C. Johnson, and Kei-Mu Yi. 2011. "Vertical Linkages and the Collapse of Global Trade." American Economic Review, 101 (3): 308-12.DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.3.308
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Bems, Rudolfs; Johnson, Robert C.; and Yi, Kei-Mu, "Vertical Linkages and the Collapse of Global Trade" (2011). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2392.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2392
