Price and quantity trends in the foreign trade of the United States
In: Studies in international economic relations no. 2
In: Princeton legacy library
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In: Studies in international economic relations no. 2
In: Princeton legacy library
In: NBER working paper series 14121
"As production comes to depend more on intangible productive assets, the location of production by multinational firms becomes increasingly ambiguous. The reason is that, within the firm, these assets have no clear geographical location, but only a nominal location determined by the firm's tax or legal strategies. The effects of these location ambiguities, and the resulting distortions for tax reasons of the location of production, are described and it is estimated that for U.S. firms' affiliates in a few tax havens alone, the exaggeration of value added in those locations amounted, in 2005, to about 4 percent of worldwide affiliate sales, and the exaggeration of sales to about 10 percent of worldwide affiliate sales. Some possibilities for estimating the location of production that could supersede the present dependence on accounting measures distorted by tax-saving policies are described"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
In: NBER working paper series 12996
In: NBER working paper series 13239
A substantial part of international differences in prices of individual products, both goods and services, can be explained by differences in per capita income, wage compression, or low wage dispersion among low-wage workers, and short-term exchange rate fluctuations. Higher per capita income is associated with higher prices and higher wage dispersion with lower prices. The effects of higher income and wage dispersion are moderated for the more tradable products. The effects of wage dispersion, on the other hand, are magnified for the more labor-intensive products, particularly low-skill services. The differences in prices across countries are reflected in differences in the composition of consumption. Countries in which prices of labor-intensive services are very high, such as the Nordic countries, consume much less of them. For some services, the shares of GDP consumed in high-price countries are less than 20 percent of the shares in low-price countries. Since these are services of very low tradability, the low consumption levels of these services imply low employment in them.
In: NBER working paper series 9417
In: NBER working paper series 8084
In: NBER working paper series 8581
In: NBER working paper series 8665
In: NBER working paper series 8299
In: NBER working paper series 7623
In: NBER working paper series 7810
In: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research, 3293
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In: Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research, 2240
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In: Conference Board research report 901