Meng, Bo; Yamano, Norihoko - In: Journal of Economic Structures 6 (2017) 23, pp. 1-38
Studies on the rise of global value chains (GVCs) have attracted a great deal of interest in the recent economics literature. However, due to statistical and methodological challenges, most existing researches ignore domestic regional heterogeneity in assessing the impact of joining GVCs. GVCs...