Economic Crisis and Global Supply Chains

Explaining the Global Economic Crisis

Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality

A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of “global supply chains” in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory of trade with sequential production to shed light on how global supply chains affect the interdepende...

Global Value Chains , Economic Upgrading , and Gender

Global Value Chains: Economic and Policy Issues

In the past few years, a fairly substantial literature has emerged addressing the phenomenon of global value chains (GVCs). While one can find various definitions of GVCs, the simple concept proposed by Lunati (2007) seems to capture the spirit of most definitions. Namely, GVCs are international supply chains characterized by fragmentation of production activities across sites and borders. In e...

Location Selection in Global Supply Chains

Supply chain decision problems are becoming more complex with the globalization of businesses spanning several international borders. One such strategic decision problem is the location selection problem, which determines an optimal location to build a new facility. This requires multicriteria evaluation of N alternate locations with respect to M location attributes. The alternate locations cou...