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Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Global value chains (GVCs) have connected firms in complex networks within and across national borders. However, political economy models often assume away production linkages and thus fail to explain pervasive and diverse trade coalitions cutting across industries and firms. I develop a GVC‐centered framework where production linkages through
Hao Zhang
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How FDI reshapes host markets’ trade profile and politics

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract A fast‐growing literature indicates that firms’ engagement in foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade is key to understanding deepening global value chains and their political implications. However, existing studies have mainly focused on the ramifications for FDI home countries while often overlooking the firm‐product level interactions ...
In Song Kim, Steven Liao, Sayumi Miyano
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Why workers' determination is not enough: A case study of workers' struggles in Swiss machinery GVCs

, 2020
Global value chains (GVCs) affect the capacity of workers to defend and to improve their working conditions. The Swiss economy is deeply integrated into GVCs, especially export sectors such as the machinery industry.
Martinelli, Aris
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GVC centrality and productivity [PDF]

OECD Productivity Working Papers, 2018
This paper uses “centrality” metrics to reflect the changing structure of Global Value Chains (GVCs), contrasting central hubs and peripheral countries and sectors, and examine how these changes impact firm productivity. Using cross-country firm-level data from ORBIS, the paper finds that changing position within GVCs can play a role in the catch up of
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Is Surging Asia Sustainable Amidst Fracturing GVCs and Soaring Inequality?

, 2023
The 21st century is widely reported as Asia’s century. And yet, this historic transformation is taking place amidst so much uncertainty as to the trajectory and role of Asia in the evolving global market.
Ofreneo, Rene E.
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Reciprocal Tariffs and Systemic Trade Losses: Evidence From Korea, Japan, and the EU

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The resurgence of U.S. protectionism, the proposal of universal reciprocal tariffs targeting major trading partners, poses systemic risks to global trade that existing bilateral analyses have not fully captured. This paper examines the economic consequences of U.S.
Noori Park, Chang Hwan Choi
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The Geoeconomic Turn on Stage: National Identity and the Interpretation of the EU's Trade Sustainability Diplomacy in Indonesia and Vietnam

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In the context of the European Union's (EU's) geoeconomic shift, the governance of Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) has become a central yet contested pillar of its external trade policy. Accusations of green colonialism highlight the stakes around how partner countries interpret the EU's normative agenda.
Camille Nessel, Zhihang Wu
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Disentangling Inequality and Exploitation in the Rice Value Chain in Northern Uganda

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although inequality between actors in agricultural value chains has been extensively studied, informal and semiformal arrangements in domestic value chains involving small‐scale actors have been explored less than formal arrangements involving large firms.
Malin J. Nystrand
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Compilation of a regionally extended inter-country input–output table and its application to global value chain analyses

Journal of Economic Structures, 2017
Studies on the rise of global value chains (GVCs) have attracted a great deal of interest in the recent economics literature. However, due to statistical and methodological challenges, most existing researches ignore domestic regional heterogeneity in ...
Bo Meng, Norihoko Yamano
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Measuring Firm Greenness: A Comprehensive Review of Corporate Sustainability Indicators

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The major global challenges of climate change, environmental degradation, and resource scarcity have gained centrality in policymaking and academia, with a growing body of research exploring the interlinkages among economic growth, trade, environmental outcomes, and policy interventions.
Maria Laura Pupo, Anna D'Ambrosio
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