Technical Complexity,Production Network Linkage And International Specialization Gains Distribution

In recent years,with the continuous reduction of transportation cost and communication cost,the value-chain specialization is rising and deepening.At the same time,a large number of literatures began to study China's specialization status in the global value chain,but most of them were based on the input-output framework.So they can't point out the specific factors that affect international specialization gains distribution.Therefore,this paper will make a further study on the basis of the existing literature,and analyze how the technical complexity and production network association affect international specialization gains distribution and the extent of their impact.Then this paper will proposes policy suggestions on how China should participate in the international specialization in the future.The first chapter of this paper mainly introduces the background,research significance,the main content,innovative points and shortcomings.The second chapter summarizes the research results of domestic and foreign scholars on global value chain specialization and export technology complexity in recent years.The third chapter constructs a two-country model with micro-foundation to depict the value-chain specialization between China and the rest of the world(ROW),and obtains the decision mechanism of technology complexity,production network linkage and quantity of intermediate products to the international specialization gains distribution,which lays the foundation for the following quantitative simulation.In the fourth chapter,the exogenous variables and fixed parameters in the model are assigned,and the constraint conditions are proposed to calibrate the rest parameters,so that the numerical solutions precisely replicate the real output and trade structures.The fifth chapter,this paper analyzes the international specialization gains distribution obtained by China and ROW during 2000-2014,and further discusses the determinants.In the sixth chapter,according to the results of the previous study,this paper puts forward the conclusions and policy recommendations.The results suggest that,China's gains distribution from ROW obtained a continuous growth during the sample period,and mainly due to the increase of production network association.ROW's gains distribution in China underwent largely an inverted “V” shape curve,and it stems relatively heavier from intermediate inputs' quantity penetration into China's domestic production networks.The change of intermediate product's technical complexity has a relatively small impact on the change of division of labor income,but it plays an important role in the promotion of China's international specialization gains distribution.In addition,we can get the specific value of domestic and foreign technical complexity,so it can be used as a new method to measure the technical complexity of intermediate products.