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We examine firm participation in global supply chains to help explain a puzzling decline in protectionist demands in the U.S. despite increased import competition and ongoing currency undervaluation. To explain firm responses to undervaluation, we rely on advances in the international trade...
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I offer an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). I outline a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and I trace the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the measurement...
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approach" to measuring the relevance of global production sharing in the world economy, and we also offer a critical evaluation … of the country- and industry-level datasets (or World Input Output Tables) that have been used to date. We next discuss …-level quantitative frameworks that are easily calibrated with World Input Output Tables, and that open the door for counterfactual …
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We develop a property-rights model of the firm in which production entails a continuum of uniquely sequenced stages. In each stage, a final-good producer contracts with a distinct supplier for the procurement of a customized stage-specific component. Our model yields a sharp characterization for...
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The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals' attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions …-skilled is associated with more pro-globalization attitudes in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the … sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More …
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This paper evaluates the extent to which the world economy has entered a phase of de-globalisation, and it offers some … indicating that the world economy has already entered an era of de-globalisation. Instead, the observed slowdown in globalisation …
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specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …
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This paper makes two methodological contributions. First, it proposes a framework to decompose total production activities at the country, sector, or country-sector level, to different types, depending on whether they are for pure domestic demand, traditional international trade, simple GVC...
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recently available World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to study the properties of the new measures of the REER for 40 countries …
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countries join the world economy so that globalization increases at the margin, labor standards worsen (improve) at the margin …We ask how globalization affects a government's incentives to set labor standards for its workers. In a stylized … with globalization than it would under autarky, because labor standards are a normal good and the general increase in …
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