Comments by Prema-chandra Athukorala, on Are Production Networks Passé in East Asia? Not Yet

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October 01 2018 Comments by Prema-chandra Athukorala, on Are Production Networks Passé in East Asia? Not Yet Author and Article Information Online Issn: 1536-0083 Print Issn: 1535-3516 © 2018 by the Asian Economic Panel and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2018Massachusetts Institute of Technology Asian Economic Papers (2018) 17 (3): 109–112. https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00638 Cite Icon Cite Permissions Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Search Site Citation Comments by Prema-chandra Athukorala, on Are Production Networks Passé in East Asia? Not Yet. Asian Economic Papers 2018; 17 (3): 109–112. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/asep_a_00638 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAll JournalsAsian Economic Papers Search Advanced Search Prema-chandra Athukorala: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether global production networks (GPNs) in East Asia have run out of steam, in the context of the debate on global trade slowdown. A key strand of this debate, which is based on circumstantial evidence or pure speculation, is that trade slowdown in recent years was partly underpinned by sluggish growth of trade based on global production sharing—that is, trade in parts and components and final assembly taking place within GPNs (GPN trade). As far as I know, this is the first systematic empirical analysis of this issue. It is an innovative contribution that helps broaden our understanding of the East Asian growth dynamism and the relevance of global production sharing as a mechanism of global economic integration for latecomers to export-oriented industrialization. The inferences in the previous literature on global trade slowdown has solely focused on “trade to world... You do not currently have access to this content.