and high-frequency data related to Covid-19 pandemic production shocks. We use this data to quantify the extent of …

We study the role of firm heterogeneity and imperfect competition for global production networks and the gains from …, especially under package reforms. Global production networks thus mediate bigger effects and cross-border spillovers from …

This paper studies how firms' offshoring decisions shape a country's domestic production networks. We develop a model … net effect of offshoring on a firm’s domestic production networks depends on the relative strength of the three effects … domestic production networks. …

Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate … technologically determined sequence of production steps. In our model, cost savings from offshoring fluctuate along the production … may lead to a large increase in offshoring activities. -- Offshoring ; international trade ; vertical production chain …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …

theory-based measures for production networks from a multi-sector gravity model with inter-sectoral linkages to analyze the … pattern of production. Gross bilateral trade ows no longer reveal a country's or a sector's value added contribution. Yet, it …, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO …