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 …

The paper aims to trace the development of analytical frameworks for global value chains
(GVC). This is not an encyclopedic literature survey; it focuses only on the strands of …

This article provides guidance to prudent use of the World Input–Output Database (WIOD) in
analyses of international trade. The WIOD contains annual time‐series of world input–output …

Denser networks of intermediate input flows between countries suggest ongoing
international fragmentation of production chains. But is this process mainly taking place …

In this paper, we “slice up the global value chain” using a decomposition technique that has
recently become feasible due to the development of the World Input-Output Database. We …

World trade and production are increasingly structured around “global value chains”(GVCs).
The last years have witnessed a growing number of case studies describing at the product …

In recent years, global value chains have played an increasing role in business strategies,
profoundly affecting international trade and development paradigms. Global value chains …

What is the average number of production stages for the US? Is production more vertically
fragmented now than decades ago? Do upstream or downstream stages contribute to a …

While considerable attention has been directed to the national‐level impacts of global value
chains, far less attention has been focused on the way in which global production …

Using the world input–output tables available from the World Input–Output Database project,
we quantify production line positions of thirty-five industries for forty countries and the rest of …