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Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, February 1999
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w6969
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1 Online-Ressource
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English
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10.3386/w6969
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Globalization -- the integration of national economies -- has become one of the most widely used buzzwords of the late 20th century. Yet there are remarkably few statistical measures of product-market integration across time, countries, and goods. In this paper we present some new measures of product-market integration based on price and quantity data. We find evidence of greater integration, but we also find that this process has not been uniform over time, countries, or goods