Output Upstreamness and Input Downstreamness of Industries/Countries in World Production

International Regional Science Review, Forthcoming

43 Pages Posted: 9 Dec 2015

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Ronald E. Miller

University of Pennsylvania - Regional Science Program

Umed Temursho

University of Central Asia (UCA)

Date Written: July 9, 2015

Abstract

Using the world input-output tables available from the WIOD project, we quantify production line positions of 35 industries for 40 countries and the rest of the world region over 1995-2011. In contrast to the previous related literature we do not focus only on the output supply chain, but also consider sectors’ input demand chains. This distinction is important because both these chains jointly constitute the entire production process, and the output sales structure of each sector is generally different from the structure of its inputs purchases. We use the output upstreamness (OU) measure of Antras et al. (2012) and our proposed input downstreamness (ID) measure to quantify industry relative position, respectively, along the global output supply chain and the global input demand chain. Focusing on time variation, we find that potential input-output data uncertainties do not affect the observed patterns of the average OU and ID changes for the vast majority of countries and sectors. Further, for most countries the increase of OUs/IDs over time is found to be driven by a rise in cross-border intermediates sales/purchases.

Keywords: output upstreamness, input downstreamness, output supply chain, input demand chain, industry production position, structural decomposition analysis

Suggested Citation

Miller, Ronald E. and Temursho, Umed, Output Upstreamness and Input Downstreamness of Industries/Countries in World Production (July 9, 2015). International Regional Science Review, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2700845

Ronald E. Miller

University of Pennsylvania - Regional Science Program ( email )

Philadelphia, PA 19104-6370
United States

Umed Temursho (Contact Author)

University of Central Asia (UCA) ( email )

138 Toktogul Street
Bishkek, 720001
Kyrgyzstan

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