Economic globalization in the 21st century has been characterized by the rise and spread of global value chains(GVCs).It faces significant challenges due to increasing domestic and international policy uncertainty in ...Economic globalization in the 21st century has been characterized by the rise and spread of global value chains(GVCs).It faces significant challenges due to increasing domestic and international policy uncertainty in the context of emerging mega risks like geopolitical tensions and climate change.This paper begins by constructing a theoretical model for an open economy to study how risk-averse firms make decisions regarding the sourcing of intermediate inputs in an uncertain environment.Our model solution proposes that firms will source fewer intermediate inputs from countries with more economic uncertainty.An increase in domestic and foreign uncertainty will have opposite impacts on a country's position in GVCs.In this sense,we argue that a country tends to move downstream along GVCs if its own economic policies become more uncertain,and it tends to move upstream with an increase in the uncertainty of its trading partner countries.Our regression analyses,based on data including the World Input-Output Database,World Development Indicators,the UN Comtrade database,and the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index,provide empirical support for this model-based conclusion.Our findings highlight that a nation must consider foreign economic policy uncertainty and maintain domestic policy stability to participate in GVCs.展开更多
本文通过拓展BMM模型,从产品层面分析企业在全球价值链(Global Value Chain,GVC)中位置变动对其出口汇率弹性的影响机制和作用路径。研究结果表明:GVC位置攀升会提高产品质量、产品市场垄断度和产品核心度,从而降低出口量汇率弹性,增大...本文通过拓展BMM模型,从产品层面分析企业在全球价值链(Global Value Chain,GVC)中位置变动对其出口汇率弹性的影响机制和作用路径。研究结果表明:GVC位置攀升会提高产品质量、产品市场垄断度和产品核心度,从而降低出口量汇率弹性,增大出口价格汇率弹性,进而提升企业应对汇率风险的能力;GVC位置攀升对出口结构的优化效应显著,GVC上游企业在汇率贬值时不会盲目进入出口市场,而在汇率升值时不会轻易退出出口市场;随着企业向GVC高端攀升,汇率变动对其出口额的影响逐渐减弱,但对出口结构的优化效应不断增强;从贸易利得视角看,人民币贬值时,GVC位置的攀升增大了国内增加值占比,降低了国外增加值占比,因此GVC位置攀升不但有利于减缓汇率变动,还能够提高出口贸易利得。展开更多
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.72273125)the Zhejiang Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Project(Nos.22NDQN203YB,22ZJQN13YB)the JapaneseKAKENproject(No.24K04853).
文摘Economic globalization in the 21st century has been characterized by the rise and spread of global value chains(GVCs).It faces significant challenges due to increasing domestic and international policy uncertainty in the context of emerging mega risks like geopolitical tensions and climate change.This paper begins by constructing a theoretical model for an open economy to study how risk-averse firms make decisions regarding the sourcing of intermediate inputs in an uncertain environment.Our model solution proposes that firms will source fewer intermediate inputs from countries with more economic uncertainty.An increase in domestic and foreign uncertainty will have opposite impacts on a country's position in GVCs.In this sense,we argue that a country tends to move downstream along GVCs if its own economic policies become more uncertain,and it tends to move upstream with an increase in the uncertainty of its trading partner countries.Our regression analyses,based on data including the World Input-Output Database,World Development Indicators,the UN Comtrade database,and the Economic Policy Uncertainty Index,provide empirical support for this model-based conclusion.Our findings highlight that a nation must consider foreign economic policy uncertainty and maintain domestic policy stability to participate in GVCs.
文摘本文通过拓展BMM模型,从产品层面分析企业在全球价值链(Global Value Chain,GVC)中位置变动对其出口汇率弹性的影响机制和作用路径。研究结果表明:GVC位置攀升会提高产品质量、产品市场垄断度和产品核心度,从而降低出口量汇率弹性,增大出口价格汇率弹性,进而提升企业应对汇率风险的能力;GVC位置攀升对出口结构的优化效应显著,GVC上游企业在汇率贬值时不会盲目进入出口市场,而在汇率升值时不会轻易退出出口市场;随着企业向GVC高端攀升,汇率变动对其出口额的影响逐渐减弱,但对出口结构的优化效应不断增强;从贸易利得视角看,人民币贬值时,GVC位置的攀升增大了国内增加值占比,降低了国外增加值占比,因此GVC位置攀升不但有利于减缓汇率变动,还能够提高出口贸易利得。
