This paper surveys the recent body of work in economics on the importance of global value
chains (GVCs) in shaping international trade flows and production patterns. On the empirical …

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 …

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 …

This article describes the construction of the World Input–Output Tables (WIOTs) that
constitute the core of the World Input–Output Database. WIOTs are available for the period …

Due to the rise of global supply chains, gross exports do not accurately measure the amount
of value added exchanged between countries. I highlight five facts about differences …

We combine input–output and bilateral trade data to compute the value added content of
bilateral trade. The ratio of value added to gross exports (VAX ratio) is a measure of the …

This review is the introduction to a special issue of Economic Systems Research on the topic
of global multiregional input–output (GMRIO) tables, models, and analysis. It provides a …

EXIOPOL (A New Environmental Accounting Framework Using Externality Data and Input–
Output Tools for Policy Analysis) was a European Union (EU)-funded project creating a …

Understanding the drivers of many environmental problems requires enumerating the global
supply chain. Multi-region input–output analysis (MRIOA) is a well-established technique for …

International supply chains require coordination of numerous activities across multiple
countries and firms. We adapt a model of supply chains and apply it to an international trade …