Despite the central role of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in global parts and components trade, most previous studies on the PRC's parts and components trade have been limited to a particular trade partner or some specific industries. The central objective of this paper is to provide a...

This paper analyzes the participation of North African countries into international production networks and examines if/to what extent being part of a global value chain affects firms' performance. Using largely unexploited Input-Output data from UNCTAD-Eora, we describe regional and country GVC...

This chapter provides stylized facts about the nature and evolution of Global Value Chains in the Asia–Pacific region, with particular attention to cross-national transfers of value added. The re-organization of production systems based on cross-country comparative advantages had a significant...

Global value chains (GVCs) are among the critical factors shaping the world economy nowadays. Within cross-border production networks an increasingly important role has been played by the information and communication technology (ICT) sectors. Based on the multi-country input-output database...

The policy brief examines the position of Central, East and Southeast European (CESEE) countries in the global value chain (GVC) network. Effective integration in global value chains has been recognised as one of the important ingredients of economic development. The analysis uses the...

The world economy is increasingly shaped by cross-border production and investment activity. The paper uses complex network analysis along with panel data econometric techniques to study the structure and interactions between the networks of global value chains (GVC) and foreign direct...

Central Europe, which includes countries that either already joined the EU or are to accede the EU in the near future, offers an interesting case to examine network trade. The accession process has been crucial to the emergence of conditions friendly to production fragmentation, i.e.,...

We analyse the regionalisation of the European Union's production networks and the impact of enlargement by looking at trends in trade in intermediate and final products at different technology levels between 1995 and 2007. We find that enlargement has coincided with quite major changes in the...

This paper examines the effect of cross-border production sharing on the sensitivity of trade to the exchange rate and to other key variables. Theoretically, the response of a country's exports to the exchange rate should decline as the share of exported components for use in the manufacture of...