The increasing waves of globalization, the first taking place between the second half of the last century and WWI, and the second which has occurred since WWII until today, implied an unprecedented flow of goods and factors across international borders. The first episode of mass migration dates...

Several new statistical tools and analytical frameworks have been developed recently to measure countries' and sectors' involvement in global value chains. Such wealth of methodologies reflects that different empirical questions call for distinct accounting methods, along with different levels...