This paper examines China's evolving role in global production networks and its implications for assessing the potential impact of the "trade war" declared by President Trump. The analysis, which is based on a systematic disaggregation of trade based on global production sharing into components...

Interest in the effects of globalized production on national economies has been heightened in recent years by the rapid growth in direct investment. Research in this area is, however, often limited by the scarcity of relevant data. Even when relevant data exist, comparison of the data across...

Using confidential individual firm data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis survey of U.S. firms' manufacturing operations abroad, we investigate the determinants of capital intensity in affiliate operations. Host country labor cost, the scale of host country production, and the capital...