Abstract submission for the 9th Hispanic-American Conference on Input-Output Analysis held in Aveiro has been extended until 1st of June.
Abstract submission for the 9th Hispanic-American Conference on Input-Output Analysis held in Aveiro has been extended until 1st of June.
The 5th Prize Emilio Fontela on Input-Output Analysis 2017 has been awarded to Jesús Manuel García Ramos (National Autonomous University of Mexico) for the paper “Mapping and measuring the evolution of Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile and Mexico in the Global Value Chains, the case of manufacturing exports, 1995-2011“.
His paper fulfills not only the requirement necessary on scientific quality for the award of the prize but also contributes to the further knowledge on the research area followed. Therefore, the jury congratulates him for the high quality of the paper.
In the past few decades, the international fragmentation of production processes in some sectors (most prominently in manufacturing industries) has evolved rapidly. In 1995, manufacturing industry exports represented 60.5 per cent of the total world exports; meanwhile, in 2011, signified 56.1 per cent (OECD/WTO, 2016). The multiplicative effects of manufacturing exports are stronger than other sector’s: Its direct and indirect production processes increase the demand for raw materials, energy, construction, and services from a broad array of supplying industries (Manufacturing Institute et al., 2012).
In the context of Global Value Chains (GVC), a country cannot become or continue competitive without robust and well-organized backward and forward linkages. In this sense, any variation in the world demand for manufacturing exports of individual countries has direct and indirect impacts over the GVC. By viewing the GVC of manufacturing exports as an input-output system, and therefore in turn as a complex network, we map and measure the domestic, upstream, and downstream ripple effects of Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, and Mexico’s exports over it from 1995 to 2011.
Our results show that, among Latin American countries, Mexico has the highest domestic, upstream, and downstream ripple effects. In 1995, an additional VA of $1.28 from Mexico and $0.6 from upstream processes of the rest of the world are required for a dollar of new final demand for Mexico’s exports of manufactures only. In 2011, an additional VA of $1.52 from Mexico and $0.92 from upstream processes of the rest of the world are required for a dollar of new final demand for Mexico’s exports of manufactures only.
However, Mexico has very weak ripple effects over the GVC of manufacturing exports because their backward and forward linkages are sparse. It seems that the starting point to increase the quantitative ripple effects of Mexico’s manufacturing exports over the GVC is developing its forward and backward linkages with Latina American countries. The development of the intra-regional market could be an effective strategy to facilitate productive diversification and international competitiveness. However, Latin American countries must develop interconnected and rigorous regulatory frameworks to reinforce regional integration and their response to the rest of world’s trade strategies.
The Council of the Hispanic-American Input-Output Analysis Society (SHAIO), at the council meeting on September 30, 2016 adopted the call for elections to the SHAIO Council 2016 for today October, 10 and the corresponding electoral calendar.
Mònica Serrano
Secretary SHAIO
Image: John Keane, CC BY-SA
The web of the SHAIO workshop that will take place in Bilbao in September 2016 has been released.
Dear friends and colleagues:
We wanted to forward our most sincere wishes for you and your loved ones to have a marvelous Christmas and a Happy New Year.
During these days, we wish you enjoy the best gift… for your family, for your friends, to build new projects, to have rest, to dream… time to do what you want and not what you should… time to live.
From your friends of the board of the SHAIO,
Kind regards.
Dear friends and colleagues,
Please find attached to this message the call for the Annual General Assembly of the Hispanic-American Input-Output Society (SHAIO in its Spanish acronym) that will be Tuesday 8thSeptember 2015 at 13:00 hours in Barcelona. The meeting will be held in the Assembly Hall in building 690 of the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business of the University of Barcelona.
We have also attached the minutes of the general assembly of 2014 to be approved (if it is appropriate) during the next annual general assembly.
We wish you a good summer break and looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona.
Best regards,
Secretary SHAIO
The website of the 5th Spanish Conference on Input-Output Analysis is available again!
The Joint Research Centre of the European Comission has an open call until 31/08/2015 for two posts of researcher fellow on Input-output, Environment and Labour Accounts for its team on Input-Output Economics at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), based in Seville (Spain).
Code: 2015-SVQ-J5-FGIV-5193 – SEVILLE
FG IV Researcher – Input-output, Environment and Labour Accounts
The SHAIO council has recently appointed Geoffrey J.D. Hewings as new SHAIO fellow. He will be installed and honoured during the 6th Spanish Conference IOA, Barcelona 2015.
Deadline 05-08-15/03/2015.