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Topic on Frontier Issues in International Trade

reading and write a report more then 4 pages

Offshoring, Fragmentation of Production, and Global Value Chains

Grossman, G.M., Rossi-Hansberg, E., 2008. Trading tasks: A simple theory of offshoring. American Economic Review 98(5), 1978-1997.

This paper proposes a theory of the global production process that focuses on tradeable tasks, and uses it to study how falling costs of offshoring affect factor prices in the source country.

Gereffi, G., Fernandez-Stark, K., 2011. Global value chain analysis: A primer. Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness (CGGC), Duke University, North Carolina, USA.

An elementary introduction to the concepts, modelling, and analysis of global value chains.

Costinot, A., Vogel, J., Wang, S., 2012. An elementary theory of global supply chains. Review of Economic Studies 80(1), 109-144.

This article offers a first look at how vertical specialization shapes the interdependence of nations.

Koopman, R., Wang, Z., Wei, S.-J., 2014. Tracing value-added and double counting in gross exports. American Economic Review 104(2), 459-494.

This paper proposes an accounting framework that breaks up a country’s gross exports into various value-added components by source and additional double-counted terms. This framework incorporates all previous measures of vertical specialization and value-added trade in the literature.

Degain, C., Meng, B., Wang, Z., 2017. Recent trends in global trade and global value chains. Global Value Chain Development Report 2017, Measuring and Analyzing the Impact of GVCs on Economic Development, 37-68.

A good reference to the background of global value chains.

Wang, Z., Wei, S.-J., Yu, X., Zhu, K., 2017a. Characterizing global value chains: Production length and upstreamness. National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wang, Z., Wei, S.-J., Yu, X., Zhu, K., 2017b. Measures of participation in global value chains and global business cycles. National Bureau of Economic Research.

Wang et al. (2017a,b) develop a set of GVCs indices that improves upon the measures in the existing literature.

Meng, B., Peters, G.P., Wang, Z., Li, M., 2018. Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains. Energy Econ. 73, 24-42.

This paper estimates the potential environmental cost along global value chains, by combining value-added and emissions accounting in a consistent way.

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