This work assembles a unique bilateral dataset on multinational production in the manufacturing sector, in which value added and factor incomes are broken down by location country and by ultimate owner country. Using this dataset, which covers 44 countries over the years 2004-11, we compute...

Production networks in East Asia, particularly in the manufacturing and machinery industries, are well recognized as the most advanced in the world, in terms of their magnitude, extensiveness, and sophistication. This paper tries to link various economic studies on related topics, to see how...

This paper develops a micro-simulation framework for multinational entry and sales activities across countries. The model is based on Eaton, Kortum, and Kramarzs (2010) quantitative trade model adapted towards multinational production. Using micro data on Japanese manufacturing firms, we...