April 20, 2026
Center for Monetary and Financial Studies
The Georgetown Americas Institute is pleased to partner with the Center for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) to conduct the course: The Economics of Global Value Chains.
This course examines multinational firms with a focus on global value chains, covering both theoretical and empirical approaches at the macro and micro levels. The course will evaluate different data methods and frameworks, compare their strengths, and apply these insights to recent global economic changes and trade policy in a GVC-driven world.
Topics covered will include:
- Measuring global production sharing in the world economy via World Input-Output Tables
- Firm-level empirical approaches to GVC participation
- GVC and quantitative trade theory
- Micro-level approaches to modeling GVCs
- GVCs and trade and industrial policy
- The future of globalization