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A cross-industry analysis of intra-industry trade measurement thresholds: Canada and the United States, 1988–1999

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The measurement of intra-industry trade allows for the separation of horizontal from vertical intra-industry trade using thresholds to categorize different types of trade. Using product-level data on Canada–United States international trade and corresponding cross-industry determinants, this study tests the sensitivity of these thresholds finding that previous studies may have incorrectly specified the measurement of intra-industry trade.

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I would like to thank J. Atsu Amegashie, Stephen T. Easton, Kenneth Kasa, Peter E. Kennedy, Nathan Nunn, Markus von Wartburg, Steven Yong, and Kerry Young for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. I would also like to thank two anonymous referees and the editors for helpful comments that substantially improved the content of the paper.

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Andresen, M.A. A cross-industry analysis of intra-industry trade measurement thresholds: Canada and the United States, 1988–1999. Empir Econ 38, 793–808 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-009-0291-9

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