The Role of Exporters and Domestic Producers in GVCs: Evidence for Belgium based on Extended National Supply-and-Use Tables Integrated into a Global Multiregional Input-Output Table / Bernhard Michel, Caroline Hambÿe, Bart Hertveldt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michel, Bernhard.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Hambÿe, Caroline.

Hertveldt, Bart.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w25155.

NBER working paper series no. w25155

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Role of Exporters and Domestic Producers in GVCs

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

For a finer analysis of global value chain integration and competitiveness, we develop and apply a method for a micro-data based breakdown of manufacturing industries in the 2010 Belgian supply-and-use tables into export-oriented and domestic market firms. The former are defined as those firms that export at least 25% of their turnover. We then derive export-heterogeneous national input-output tables which we integrate into a global table. Our analyses reveal that: a) export-oriented manufacturers have lower value-added in output shares and import proportionally more of the intermediates they use; b) exports of export-oriented manufacturers generate substantial value added in other Belgian firms, in particular providers of services; c) Belgium's backward participation in global value chains is mainly due to export-oriented manufacturers and its forward participation is due to other firms, d) export-oriented manufacturers participate in value chains that comprise, on average, a greater number of upstream and downstream production stages and of which a greater share is located abroad.

Notes:

Print version record

October 2018.