Winners and losers in global supply chain trade: Embedding GSC in CGE

Peter Dixon and Maureen Rimmer

Economic Modelling, 2022, vol. 106, issue C

Abstract: A major question in contemporary economic discussions is who wins and who loses from global supply chain (GSC) trade. In seeking an answer to this question, policy makers are not well-served by existing economic models. GSC models lack adequate representation of labour markets and other aspects of the economy outside the GSC sector. Global computable general equilibrium (CGE) models have an economy-wide perspective but lack essential GSC features. We integrate GSC with CGE. Results from the integrated model can differ sharply from standalone results. A stylized application of the integrated model shows that GSC trade can accelerate the transfer of labour in developing countries out of low-marginal-productivity agriculture into higher-marginal-productivity manufacturing. At the same time, GSC trade can leave high-income countries with a difficult structural-adjustment problem and little if any long-run gain.

Keywords: Global supply chain trade; Computable general equilibrium; GSC–CGE integration; Benefits/costs of GSCs; Surplus labour (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 C68 F12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105670

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