Global Value Trees

Zhen Zhu, Michelangelo Puliga, Federica Cerina, Alessandro Chessa and Massimo Riccaboni ()

Papers from arXiv.org

Abstract: The fragmentation of production across countries has become an important feature of the globalization in recent decades and is often conceptualized by the term, global value chains (GVCs). When empirically investigating the GVCs, previous studies are mainly interested in knowing how global the GVCs are rather than how the GVCs look like. From a complex networks perspective, we use the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to study the global production system. We find that the industry-level GVCs are indeed not chain-like but are better characterized by the tree topology. Hence, we compute the global value trees (GVTs) for all the industries available in the WIOD. Moreover, we compute an industry importance measure based on the GVTs and compare it with other network centrality measures. Finally, we discuss some future applications of the GVTs.

Date: 2014-10, Revised 2014-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126699 (2015)

Downloads: (external link)
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.4694 Latest version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Global value trees (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:arx:papers:1410.4694

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Papers from arXiv.org
Bibliographic data for series maintained by arXiv administrators ().