Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2010
This paper examines the determinants of intra-firm trade in U.S. imports using detailed country-productdata. We create … find important roles for the interaction of country and product characteristicsin determining intra-firm trade shares …. Intra-firm trade is high for products with low levels of contractabilitysourced from countries with weak governance, for …