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Insertion of Argentine firms in global value chains not oriented to the mass market : the cases of high-end footwear and the Basso group

González, Andrea; Hallak, Juan Carlos; Schott, Peter K.; … - 2012

This paper describes experiences of international insertion of Argentine producers of manufactured goods not oriented to the mass market. Based on these experiences, we develop a typology of potential alternatives of international insertion for this type of goods centered on the role of local...

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International product fragmentation and the insertion of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks : Colombian case studies

Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Uribe, Maria José - 2012

Understanding the drivers of international production fragmentation is an important issue for Latin American and Caribbean countries because participation in global production networks can help mitigate instability due to dependence on natural resources and can provide opportunities for further...

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Insertion of Costa Rica in global value chains : a case study

Monge González, Ricardo; Zolezzi, Sandro - 2012

This study sheds light on how Costa Rica’s insertion in global value chains occurs by examining governance patterns, the type of activities involved, and the level of underlying innovation in the selected value chain. The paper describes in detail two case studies of electronic-related...

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Can Mexico set up in the aerospace and the software and IT global value chains as a high-value-added player?

Brown Grossman, Flor; Domínguez Villalobos, Lilia - 2012

This study is an effort to identify the process by which firms venture into GVCs and the obstacles faced by firms once they have been immersed in it. We have focused on two particular GVCs: the aerospace GVC and the software and IT services GVC. Through the case studies, we analyzed the nature...

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Tracing Value-Added and Double Counting in Gross Exports

Koopman, Robert - 2012

This paper proposes a framework for gross exports accounting that breaks up a country's gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double counted terms. By identifying which parts of the official trade data are double counted and the sources of the double...

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Organizing the Global Value Chain

Antras, Pol - 2012

be taken to the data with international trade statistics. Combining data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Related Party … Trade database and estimates of U.S. import demand elasticities from Broda and Weinstein (2006), we find empirical evidence … industry in the value chain, which we construct using U.S. Input-Output Tables …

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Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality

Costinot, Arnaud - 2012

A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of "global supply chains" in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory...

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Supply-Chain Trade : A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses

Baldwin, Richard - 2013

The trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for short - is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources...

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Trade and Industrialisation after Globalisation's 2nd Unbundling : How Building and Joining a Supply Chain are Different and Why it Matters

Baldwin, Richard - 2013

Revolutionary transformations of industry and trade occurred from 1985 to the late-1990s - the regionalisation of supply chains. Before 1985, successful industrialisation meant building a domestic supply chain. Today, industrialisers join supply chains and grow rapidly because offshored...

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Global Supply Chains and Trade Policy

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2016

How do global supply chain linkages modify countries' incentives to impose import protection? Are these linkages empirically important determinants of trade policy? To address these questions, we introduce supply chain linkages into a workhorse terms-of-trade model of trade policy with political...

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