The main objective of this study was to analyze the recent international trade database developed by the OECD, WTO and Unctad, which took into account the perspective of value added, unlike other bases that considers the gross data. From the initial focus of the service chain, it was found that...

This paper studies the great collapse in value added trade using a structural decomposition analysis. We show that changes in vertical specialisation accounted for almost half of the great trade collapse, while the previous literature on gross trade has mainly focused on final expenditure,...

This article proposes an alternative methodology to partially quantify the phenomenon of global value chains, analyzing the evolution of the domestic value-added content in exports of a number of medium and high technology products for three groups of developing countries - seven Asian, five...

This paper studies the great collapse in value added trade using a structural decomposition analysis. We show that changes in vertical specialisation accounted for almost half of the great trade collapse, while the previous literature on gross trade has mainly focused on final expenditure,...