Supply-Chain Trade: A Portrait of Global Patterns and Several Testable Hypotheses

By Richard E. Baldwin, Javier Lopez-Gonzalez. 2013

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The trade linked to international production networks - supply-chain trade for short - is associated with momentous global economic changes. This paper presents a portrait of the global pattern of supply-chain trade and how it has evolved since 1995. The paper draws on a variety of data sources but most heavily on the recent World Input-Output Database. China's supply-chain trade receives special attention.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Cross sectoral FDI spillovers and their impact on manufacturing productivity (2018, neutral): “WIOD provides annual input-output tables, allowing us to integrate into the analysis the most recent developments in firm behaviour, i.e. the increased splintering of the value chain as well as the intensified outsourcing and offshoring behaviour (Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez, 2013).”
Inspecting the Mechanism: Leverage and the Great Recession in the Eurozone (2017, background): “The trade linked to international production networks has been well documented (see for example Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez (2013)).”
Quantifying the daily economic impact of extreme space weather due to failure in electricity transmission infrastructure (2017, methodology): “Hence, the WIOD is one of the most frequently utilized databases in the literature [Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez, 2015; Johnson, 2014; Kucukvar et al., 2015; Fujii and Managi, 2015].”
Foreign direct investment and firm performance: an empirical analysis of Italian firms (2016, positive): “In keeping with the theory of firm heterogeneity, the reduction of internationalization costs in recent years (Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez 2013) may have opened access of foreign markets to marginal firms, which are relatively less productive than the incumbent multinationals.”
Services productivity, trade policy and manufacturing exports (2017, positive): “…that impact on transport and distribution services have the largest negative effects on manufactured export performance are consistent with both theory and evidence on the drivers of supply chain trade and international integration (Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez, 2014; Saslavsky and Shepherd, 2014).”
Networks of Value Added Trade (2017, positive): “The fact that the production of German exports uses relatively more foreign value added than in the US is a result found by other studies of supply-chain trade, like Johnson and Noguera (2012), Baldwin and Lopez-Gonzalez (2015).”
The heterogeneous impact of Brexit: Early indications from the FTSE (2018, neutral): “(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (-2,0) (-2,+1) (-2,+2) (-2,+3) (-2,+4) (-1,+14) (-2,+19)”