Chapter 1: Preliminaries: concepts, trends and frameworks -- Chapter 2: The participation of Latin America in international supply chains -- Chapter 3: Drivers of global value chain participation: cross-country analyses -- Chapter 4: What does it take to be part of an international value chain:...

Casual evidence suggests that multinational companies increasingly look for places with adequate transport and logistic infrastructure to locate affiliates that participate in cross-border production sharing. Yet, there are no systematic empirical analyses examining how logistic infrastructure...

Assessing the trade impact of road quality improvements is data demanding. In this article, we overcome this limitation by combining highly disaggregated records of export flows with detailed geo-referenced information of the Chilean transport network, including its road quality, as well as real...

Assessing the trade impacts of domestic transport costs is data demanding and analyses that examine the effects of road quality, a critical aspect in regional and public policy, practically do not exist in the international trade literature. The few studies available rely mostly on...

Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second, identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship...