The Impact of International Crises on Maritime Transportation Based Global Value Chains

The Impact of International Crises on Maritime Transportation Based Global Value Chains

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• Maritime transportation is very important for international trade
• The International trade network has evolved into complex global value chains (GVCs)
• Different to the common bilateral analysis, Statistical Network Analysis captures trade network effects
• Previous analyses do not consider: GVCs, global crises, transportation linkage
• This work:

Rich Data from the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP)

Novel representation of the Maritime Multi-commodity International Trade Network (MM-ITN) replicates GVCs

Suite of Statistical Network Analysis tools

Evolution of the MM-ITN clearly illustrated

Impact of global crises described from a network perspective • Economic policy provided