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• Impact Factor:2.5
• Journal:Journal of International Trade & Economic Development
• Key Words:high-tech products; international trade; degree centrality; linkage strength; network position; global value chain
• Abstract:With the rapid acceleration of global industrial transfer, the complexity of world exports of high-tech products has increased significantly. This study aims to investigate the evolution of the network structure in international high-tech product trade and its impact on global value chain (GVC) indices. By analyzing the trade network and GVC indices, we explore the small-world characteristic of the international high-tech product trade (IHT) network and the significant spatial heterogeneity in its geographical pattern. While emerging industrialized countries are gradually gaining importance in the core-periphery structure, we observe that developed economies still maintain control over GVCs, as indicated by analyzing GVC indices. Furthermore, our empirical analysis reveals that network centrality has a positive effect on GVC participation and position indices, but linkage strength and power position in the network show a negative effect on GVC position index. These findings suggest that although the surge in high-tech product exports from latecomer countries is primarily driven by their focus on lower value-added functions, it does not result in higher positions for these countries within the GVCs. This discovery also provides further evidence for the dialectical debate on a spike in high-tech exports from developing countries.
• Note:扬州大学人文社会科学三级权威期刊
• Co-author:Huang Xiaodong
• First Author:Li Tingzhu
• Indexed by:Research Atricle
• Correspondence Author:Du Debin
• Document Code:2232879
• Discipline:Economics
• First-Level Discipline:Applied Economics
• Document Type:Journal
• Volume:33
• Issue:6
• Page Number:1040-1073
• ISSN No.:0963-8199
• Translation or Not:no
• Date of Publication:2023-07-06
• Included Journals:SSCI