Production Chains in an Interregional Framework: Identification by Means of Average Propagation Lengths

By E. Dietzenbacher, Isidoro Romero. 2007

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When linkages between industries are studied from the perspective of production chains, sequencing is important. In this respect, both the strength of the linkages and the distance between industries are relevant. Distance is measured by the average propagation length, defined as the average number of steps it takes a stimulus in one industry to propagate and affect another industry. Using the 1985 intercountry input—output table for six European countries, we present three applications—visualizing the production structure by graphing its production chains, analyzing intercountry linkages between industries, and determining the role that each country plays within the system.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. G. D. de Vries
2. M. Timmer
3. B. Los
4. Robert Stehrer
5. A. Erumban
6. E. Dietzenbacher
7. David H. Autor
8. Manfred Lenzen

In Strategy and Management

1. M. Timmer
2. B. Los
3. G. D. de Vries
4. Robert Stehrer
5. A. Erumban
6. Zhi Wang
7. E. Dietzenbacher
8. Shang-jin Wei

Citations in the corpus

• Slicing Up Global Value Chains (2014, methodology): “This is more in the spirit of work by Dietzenbacher and Romero (2007) and Antràs, Chor, Fally, and Hillberry (2012), who compute the average number of “transactions” a dollar of a given product will go through before being sold for fi nal use. sum across all participating industries makes up the…”
• Output Upstreamness and Input Downstreamness of Industries/Countries in World Production (2017, unknown): “Such an assumption also has been adopted for quantifying average propagation length between industries (Dietzenbacher et al., 2005; Dietzenbacher and Romero, 2007) and finding av-3 erage distance between individuals (as ultimate owners) and companies in the presence of cross-shareholding links…”
• Mapping Global Value Chains (2014, unknown): “The approach is conceptually close to the calculation of average propagation lengths in the inputoutput literature (Dietzenbacher and Romero, 2007).”