TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baldwin,Robert E.
AU  - Kimura,Fukunari
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Measuring U.S. International Goods and Services Transactions
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - March 1996; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - In order to better capture the close relationship between firms' cross-border trading activities and the sales and purchasing activities of their foreign affiliates, this paper proposes supplementary accounting formats that classify cross-border and foreign affiliate activities on an ownership basis, in contrast to the residency approach followed in the balance-of-payments accounts.  One format combines net cross-border sales by Americans to foreigners, net sales by foreign affiliates of U.S. firms to foreigners, and net sales of U.S. firms to U.S. affiliates of foreign firms to yield a figure that indicates net sales by Americans to foreigners.  Another accounting format measures the value-added embodied in cross-border and foreign affiliate activities on an ownership basis.  U.S. cross- border and foreign affiliate activities based on these two approaches are presented and analyzed for the period, 1987-1992.  In addition, data by industry are presented in these formats
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w5516
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w5516
ER  -