The Value-added Creation Effect of Global Value Chain Participation: Industry-level Evidence from APEC Member Economies

Innwon Park and Soonchan Park ()
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Soonchan Park: KOREA INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY (KIEP), Postal: [30147] , Building C, Sejong National Research Complex, , 370, Sicheong-daero, , Sejong-si, Korea, Sicheong-daero, , Sejong-si, , Korea, http://www.kiep.go.kr/index.do

No 20-1, APEC Study Series from Korea Institute for International Economic Policy

Abstract: We analyze the value-added creation effect of GVC participation by applying a standard fixed effects regression model analysis with economy-wide country-industry data. We use OECD Inter-country Input-Output Tables covering 64 countries (21 APEC members and 43 non-APEC members) and 35 industries (1 Agriculture, forestry and fishing, 3 Mining, 16 Manufacturing, and 15 Service) between 2005 and 2015. We find that APEC member economies' participation in GVC activities is not distinct from non-APEC member economies but the causal relationship between GVC participation and created domestic value-added is much stronger in APEC member economies. More specifically, from the qualitative evaluation on statistical data, we find that backward linkage has been stronger than forward linkage and both have been recently decreasing. The APEC industries' upstream positions in production line have been slightly more distinguished than non-APEC industries. From the econometric regres-sion analysis, we find that forward participation in GVCs is more desirable than backward participation in terms of creating domestic value-added. We also find that the industry position in middle stages of production line in contrast to ear-lier and later stages creates higher domestic value-added per output unit. This implies that the firm-specific conventional U-shaped "Smile Curve Hypothesis" is not applicable at the economy-wide country-industry level, especially in APEC member economies. This finding supports that manufacturing industries are still a major driving force for less developed APEC member economies to move up the development ladder. Considering that gains from GVC participa-tion are diversified across industries and upgrading country-industry positions in GVCs is competitive among the interconnected countries, we strongly rec-ommend for APEC member economies to construct effective domestic value chains and coordinate with other members during their process of upgrading GVC participation.

Keywords: GVC participation; GVC position; value-added creation; smile curve; APEC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 54 pages
Date: 2020-12-04
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