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New Technologies, Global Value Chains, and Developing Economies
Rodrik, Dani - 2018
Many of the exports of developing countries are channeled through global value chains (GVCs), which also act as conduits for new technologies. However, new capabilities and productive employment remain limited so far to a tiny sliver of globally integrated firms. GVCs and new technologies...
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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-globalizing, 1990-2002
Anderson, James E. - 2010
Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...
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Global Production Sharing and Rising Inequality : A Survey of Trade and Wages
Feenstra, Robert - 2001
We argue that trade in intermediate inputs, or 'global production sharing,' is a potentially important explanation for the increase in the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers in the U.S. and elsewhere. Using a simple model of heterogeneous activities within an industry, we show that...
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On the Geography of Global Value Chains
Antràs, Pol - 2017
This paper develops a multi-stage general-equilibrium model of global value chains (GVCs) and studies the specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of production of a given stage in a GVC is not only a...
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On the Measurement of Upstreamness and Downstreamness in Global Value Chains
Antràs, Pol - 2018
succinct overview of several measures developed to capture the upstreamness or downstreamness of industries and countries in …
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How Firms Export : Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions
Manova, Kalina - 2012
The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade -...
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International Comovement in the Global Production Network
Huo, Zhen - 2019
This paper provides a general and unified framework to study the role of production networks in international GDP comovement. We first derive an additive decomposition of bilateral GDP comovement into components capturing shock transmission and shock correlation. We quantify this decomposition...
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The Role of Globalization in the Within-Industry Shift Away from Unskilled Workers in France
Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - 2003
Growth in international trade and globalization has been correlated in nearly all countries with a worsening of the … globalization in France has been a huge growth in vertical specialization -- the completion of the different production stages of a … good in different countries. By shifting relative labor demand across countries, globalization of this form could explain …
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Intra-National versus International Trade : How Stubborn are Nations in Global Integration?
Wei, Shang-Jin - 1996
This paper examines the home country bias in the goods market among OECD countries. An average country imports about two and a half times as much from itself as from an otherwise identical foreign country, after controlling for sizes of exporter and importer, their direct distance, geographic...
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Innovation and Production in the Global Economy
Arkolakis, Costas - 2013
The decline in the costs of multinational production (MP) has led some countries to specialize in innovation and others to specialize in production. To study the aggregate and distributional implications of this phenomenon, we develop a quantifiable general equilibrium model of trade and MP....
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