Global Production Networks in Electronics and Intra-Asian Trade

Byron Gangnes () and Ari Van Assche ()
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Ari Van Assche: HEC Montreal and LICOS

No 201004, Working Papers from University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics

Abstract: The growth of East Asia’s intra-regional trade is driven largely by increased component trade within global electronics production networks. Data on both electronics trade and production elucidate a pattern of specialization in which upper- and middle-income countries produce sophisticated components and lower-income countries assemble lowervalue- added final goods. There is evidence of increasing sophistication within the electronics sector by the Newly Industrialized Economies and to a lesser extent by ASEAN countries. Despite the marked increase in intra-regional trade, developing East Asian countries remain heavily dependent on developed-country markets. When Western export demand rapidly contracted during the 2008-2009 economic crisis, these specialization patterns led the rapid iffusion of the business cycle shock throughout the East Asian region.

Keywords: Global production networks; electronics; Asian trade; business cycle transmission; global economic crisis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F23 F40 L63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2010-03-10
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