Measuring Global Value Chains

Robert Johnson

Annual Review of Economics, 2018, vol. 10, issue 1, 207-236

Abstract: Recent decades have seen the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), in which production stages for individual goods are broken apart and scattered across countries. Stimulated by these developments, there has been rapid progress in data and methods for measuring GVC linkages. The macro approach to measuring GVCs connects national input?output tables across borders by using bilateral trade data to construct global input?output tables. These tables have been applied to measure trade in value added, the length of and location of producers in GVCs, and price linkages across countries. The micro approach uses firm-level data to document firms? input sourcing decisions, how import and export participation are linked, and how multinational firms organize their production networks. In this review, I evaluate progress in these two approaches, highlighting points of contact between them and areas that demand further work. I argue that further convergence between these approaches can strengthen both, yielding a more complete empirical portrait of GVCs.

Keywords: foreign sourcing; input–output table; offshoring; value added; value chains (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F4 F6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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