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Global Supply Chains, Currency Undervaluation, and Firm Protectionist Demands
Jensen, J. Bradford - 2013
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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Organizing the Global Value Chain
Antras, Pol - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104981
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Conceptual Aspects of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858026
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Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222242
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On the Geography of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2017
specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955438
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Measures of Participation in Global Value Chains and Global Business Cycles
Wang, Zhi - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960797
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Global Value Chains and Effective Exchange Rates at the Country-Sector Level
Patel, Nikhil - 2014
The real effective exchange rate (REER) is one of the most cited statistical constructs in open-economy macroeconomics. We show that the models used to compute these numbers are not rich enough to allow for the rising importance of global value chains. Moreover, because different sectors within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052107
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De-Globalisation? Global Value Chains in the Post-Covid-19 Age
Antras, Pol - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231215
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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 … top of these chains. This suggests that the consequences of globalization on wage inequality may be very different in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107972
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Supply-Chain Trade : A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses
Baldwin, Richard - 2013
since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083394