Slowbalisation or a “New” type of GVC participation? The role of digital services

L. Blázquez, Carmen Diaz-Mora and B. González-Díaz ()
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L. Blázquez: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Campus de Toledo
B. González-Díaz: Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Campus de Toledo

Economia e Politica Industriale: Journal of Industrial and Business Economics, 2023, vol. 50, issue 1, No 8, 147 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates the role of digital services in the dynamics observed in global value chains (GVCs) from 1995 to 2018. Despite the context of a deceleration in globalisation, we observe how countries’ exports are increasingly incorporating foreign digital services, suggesting that a new channel, digitally driven, for globalization and GVC participation is emerging. Using trade in value added data and Social Network Analysis (SNA) methodology, we map the network of these digital services flows linked to GVCs and analyse its characteristics and evolution for the period 1995–2018. Moreover, we identify the leading economies in those networks from the point of view of both source and destination countries. New actors such as China, India and Israel arise, sharing with the USA, Germany, and the UK the leadership as global providers of intermediate digital sectors. Small European economies and Singapore show the highest dependence on foreign digital sectors to be incorporated in their exports.

Keywords: Digital services; Global value chains; International trade; Social Networks Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F01 F14 L16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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