Two additional aspects are considered beyond the standard general equilibrium setting with production under uncertainty. Firstly, sequential production forces firms to forecast future demand, produce in advance, and store inventory. Secondly, firms face a location decision, locating near...

Recent decades have seen the emergence of global value chain (GVC) production arrangements in which firms fine-slice production processes and disperse activities over multiple countries. This paper analyses how the rise of GVCs affects trade politics in developed countries. Our theoretical model...

We revisit the hypotheses of unequal exchange and deterioratingterms of trade in the specific context of import-intensive, export-led strategies of developing countries which rely on integration intoGVCs for access to markets in developed countries using a stylizedtwo-country two-commodity...

How do countries specialize along global value chains (GVCs)? Models of Costinot et al. (2013) and Antràs and de Gortari (2020) predict more productive and centrally located countries specialize in more downstream stages where the costs of production errors and shipping are higher. I...