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008 100921s2010 mau sb 000 0 eng
010 $a 2010656207
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHB1
245 00 $aReport on the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment$h[electronic resource] /$cRobert C. Feenstra ... [et al.].
260 $aCambridge, MA :$bNational Bureau of Economic Research,$cc2010.
490 1 $aNBER working paper series ;$vworking paper 16254
538 $aSystem requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
538 $aMode of access: World Wide Web.
500 $aTitle from PDF file as viewed on 9/21/2010.
530 $aAlso available in print.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 3 $a"This report, prepared for the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economic Association, examines the state of available data for the study of international trade and foreign direct investment. Data on values of imports and exports of goods are of high quality and coverage, but price data suffer from insufficient detail. It would be desirable to have more data measuring value-added in trade as well as prices of comparable domestic and imported inputs. Value data for imports and exports of services are too aggregated and valuations are questionable, while price data for service exports and imports are almost non-existent. Foreign direct investment data are of high quality but quality has suffered from budget cuts. Data on trade in intellectual property are fragmentary. The intangibility of the trade makes measurement difficult, but budget cuts have added to the difficulties. Modest funding increases would result in data more useful for research and policy analysis"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
700 1 $aFeenstra, Robert C.
710 2 $aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 $aWorking paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;$vworking paper no. 16254.
856 40 $uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w16254