Measures of Participation in Global Value Chains and Global Business Cycles

By Zhi Wang, Shang-jin Wei, Xinding Yu, Kunfu Zhu. 2017

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On the measurement of upstreamness and downstreamness in global value chains (2018, positive): “…countries and industries in GVCs (see Fally, 2012, Antràs et al., 2012, Antràs and Chor, 2013, Fally and Hillberry, 2015, Alfaro et al., 2017, Miller and Temurshoev, 2017, Wang et al., 2017).1 The intellectual foundation and computation of these measures is based on Input-Output (I-O) analysis.”
On the Geography of Global Value Chains (2020, positive): “These two measures of the positioning of countries in GVCs are proposed in Wang et al. (2017). The backward GVC participation index measures the share of a country’s production of final goods and services that is accounted for by imported value added.”