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SME Internationalization Through Global Value Chains and Free Trade Agreements : Malaysian Evidence

Arudchelvan, Menaka - 2015

not the whole story for SME internationalization. Licensing of foreign technology and investment in research and …Growing internationalization of firms in Asia through participation in global value chains (GVCs) and free trade … characteristics of SMEs involved in GVCs and FTAs. Malaysia is reputed for its engagement in GVCs and is actively pursuing FTAs …

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Reading the footprints : how foreign investors shape countries' participation in global value chains

Buelens, Christian; Tirpák, Marcel - 2017

We show that traditional gravity variables play a significant role in explaining trade flows related to global value chain participation. We find evidence that cooperation costs - measured by linguistic and geographical proximity - are more relevant for trade that reflects cross-border...

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Deep Trade Integration and North-South Participation in Global Value Chains

Razeq, Zarlasht - 2022

Do comprehensive trade agreements increase the participation of States in global value chains (GVCs) and contribute to their development? Although there is extensive evidence in the trade literature that deep preferential trade agreements (PTAs) can increase States’ bilateral export of final...

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Global Value Chains : benefiting the domestic economy?

Kummritz, Victor - 2015

Global Value Chains (GVCs) have become a central topic in trade and development policy but little is known about their actual impact on economic performance because data availability has been limited. Using a new unique set of Inter- Country Input-Output tables with extensive country coverage, I...

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Global value chains : measurement, trends and drivers

Cigna, Simone; Gunnella, Vanessa; Quaglietti, Lucia - 2022

Global value chains (GVCs) have shaped the dynamics of globalisation in recent years. This paper reviews key concepts and tools to measure countries’ involvement in GVCs, explores recent trends and investigates the underlying drivers of GVC participation empirically. The analysis in the paper...

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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020

The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...

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The US-Mexico bilateral trade relation through a value added lens

Aguirre Castro, Armando; Cardozo-Medeiros, Diego - 2020

We use the World Input-Output Database and build on Wang et al. (2013) gross exports decomposition to analyze the bilateral trade relation between Mexico and the United States from a value added perspective. Once we take into account that gross commercial flows are clouded by failing to account...

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Characterizing regionalism in Asia : a modern global supply chain perspective

Wei, Shang-jin; Yu, Xinding - 2022

This paper employs a modern global value chain (GVC) decomposition framework to quantify economic interdependence among Asian economies and between Asia and the rest of the world. It pays special attention to the value-added relationships among three sets of economies: those belonging to both...

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GVCs and the endogenous geography of RTAs

Fontagné, Lionel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2018

Geography, economic size, or common history, help predicting signed regional trade agreements (RTAs). However, not all signed RTAs are "natural" according to economic determinants. En-dogeneity and general equilibrium effects of RTAS are the two mechanisms addressed in this paper. We estimate...

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Capital dynamics, global value chains, competitiveness and barriers to FDI and capital accumulation in the EU

Adarov, Amat; Stehrer, Robert - 2020

The study analyses the relationships between capital dynamics, productivity, global value chains and foreign direct investment using panel data techniques. Among other results, we confirm the high importance of tangible and intangible ICT capital for productivity and GVC integration. We examine...

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