This study investigates the nature of the current financial crisis with the help of Input-Output Analyses that examine a country's economic potentials from its production system, and aims to present the future prospect of the Asian economy. The major focus is directed at the analysis of...

The characteristic feature of the recent global economic crisis is the speed and extent of the shock transmission. The development of cross-national production networks in recent years has significantly deepened the economic interdependency between countries, and a shock that occurs in one...

Global supply chains reshaped international trade since the 1980s. Their role in explaining the trade collapse that followed the financial crisis of September 2008 was determinant. Because manufacture production is internationally fragmented, adverse external shocks affect firms not only through...

Trade and industrial production have been increasingly interlinked, thanks to the vertical integration of global manufacturing through outsourcing and off-shoring. The expansion of international supply chains apparently determined an increase in trade elasticity observed since the late 1980s,...

Notwithstanding some progress in market and product diversification - including services - LDCs remain particularly vulnerable to external shocks. With the exception of 2006-2008, the LDCs as a group have systematically recorded a trade deficit. The 2008-2009 global crisis and the bumpy recovery...