GVCs. Second, we employ data from the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to document the empirical evolution of these … patterns in the period 1995-2011; and (ii) provide guidance for how future changes in the world economy are likely to shape the …

integration choices of firms around the world …

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 …

specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …

recently available World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to study the properties of the new measures of the REER for 40 countries …

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 …