<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . . "The Similarity of Global Value Chains: a Network-Based Measure"^^ . "International trade has been increasingly organized in the form of global value chains\r\n(GVCs) where different stages of production are located in dfferent countries. This\r\nrecent phenomenon has substantial consequences for both trade policy design at the\r\nnational or regional level and business decision making at the form level. In this paper,\r\nwe provide a new method for comparing GVCs across countries and over time. First,\r\nwe use the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to construct both the upstream and\r\ndownstream global value networks, where the nodes are individual sectors in dfferent\r\ncountries and the links are the value-added contribution relationships. Second, we introduce\r\na network-based measure of node similarity to compare the GVCs between any\r\npair of countries for each sector and each year available in the WIOD. Our networkbased\r\nsimilarity is a better measure for node comparison than the existing ones because\r\nit takes into account all the direct and indirect relationships between country-sector\r\npairs, is applicable to both directed and weighted networks with self-loops, and takes\r\ninto account externally defined node attributes. As a result, our measure of similarity\r\nreveals the most intensive interactions among the GVCs across countries and over time.\r\nFrom 1995 to 2011, the average similarity between sectors and countries have clear increasing\r\ntrends, which are temporarily interrupted by the recent economic crisis. This\r\nmeasure of the similarity of GVCs provides quantitative answers to important questions\r\nabout dependency, sustainability, risk, and competition in the global production\r\nsystem."^^ . "2015-09" . . "9" . . "IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Greg"^^ . "Morrison"^^ . "Greg Morrison"^^ . . "Alessandro"^^ . "Chessa"^^ . "Alessandro Chessa"^^ . . "Michelangelo"^^ . "Puliga"^^ . "Michelangelo Puliga"^^ . . "Zhen"^^ . "Zhu"^^ . "Zhen Zhu"^^ . . "Massimo"^^ . "Riccaboni"^^ . "Massimo Riccaboni"^^ . . . . . . "The Similarity of Global Value Chains: a Network-Based Measure (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . "WP_2015_9.pdf"^^ . . . "The Similarity of Global Value Chains: a Network-Based Measure (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "The Similarity of Global Value Chains: a Network-Based Measure (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "The Similarity of Global Value Chains: a Network-Based Measure (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "The Similarity of Global Value Chains: a Network-Based Measure (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #2753 \n\nThe Similarity of Global Value Chains: a Network-Based Measure\n\n" . "text/html" . . . "HB Economic Theory"@en . . . "HD Industries. Land use. Labor"@en . . . "HD61 Risk Management"@en . .